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...invaluable to civic projects. Republic Steel's President Thomas F. Patton, Detroit Edison's President Walker L. Cisler, Chairman Laurence Whittemore of New England papermaker Brown Co., give anywhere from 10% to 30% of their time to civic projects. In Los Angeles, Hardwareman-Banker Vic Carter was so busy that he either had to cut down his civic activities or his business. His choice: to sell his Builders Emporium, a popular, Sears-like operation for do-it-yourselfers, so he could devote more time to community affairs. In Denver President Joseph Ross of Denver's Daniels & Fisher...
...will offer Somerset Maugham's The Letter (produced and directed by William Wyler), a musical version of Jack and the Beanstalk with Celeste Holm and Cyril Ritchard. John Huston's Lysistrata, Anatole Litvak's Mayerling with Audrey Hepburn and Mel Ferrer, Claire Bloom in the Old Vic's Romeo and Juliet, the Lunts, making their TV debuts, in The Great Sebastians, Gene Kelly and Fredric March in Front Page, a Roy Rogers rodeo. NBC will also give opera, ballet and concert-hall music their biggest boost as popular art forms with the Sadler's Wells...
...comedies and dramas are being prepared for production this season and more than 50 will probably make it. Some of the world's best performers will play in comedies by Moliere and tragedies by Shakespeare when Broadway is visited by two famed repertory companies, the British Old Vic and the Jean-Louis Barrault-Madeleine Renaud company of Paris. For George Bernard Shaw's centennial year there is talk of productions of Major Barbara, The Apple Cart and St. Joan, starring Siobhan McKenna. Eugene O'Neill's posthumous drama A Long Day's Journey Into Night...
...obviously consider song the proper tonic for the summer heat. NBC's Jaye P. Morgan (Wed. and Fri. 7:30 p.m., E.D.T.), a pretty blonde aided by a quartet of brothers, is easy to look at, but her singing and performing are harder to take. CBS's Vic Damone Show (Mon. 9:30 p.m., E.D.T.) and Russ Morgan Show (Sat. 9:30 p.m., E.D.T.) and NBC's Snooky Lanson (Tues. and Thurs. 7:30 p.m., E.D.T.) are purely routine musical variety shows, but Russ Morgan has the edge because of his vocalist, Helen O'Connell...
Jitters on the Center Court. For all his pique, eighth-seeded Vic Seixas did better than many higher-seeded stars. Sweden's third-seeded Sven Davidson was knocked off by an Australian unknown named Ashley Cooper, 19. Fifth-seeded ex-Champion (1954) Jaroslav Drobny, 34, was whipped by India's Ramanathan Krishnan, 19, an agile giant with a weak serve and badly sprained ankle. Fourth-seeded Budge Patty, 32, fell to an up-and-coming Briton named Bobby Wilson...