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...Villain is Richard Burton, playing a closet-queen gang leader named Vic Dakin. Alternately brutal and simpering, Dakin is the sort of chap who, when revealed as a multiple killer, is described by his neighbors as "a quiet, unassuming man" and whose unbelieving mother invariably laments: "But he always kept his room so clean." Vic, in fact, takes good care of his mum, conveying her to the Brighton sun, faithfully carrying in the afternoon tea. Between such assignments, he coshes opponents and irritably castrates a chap or two. In films like this, of course, there is no such thing...
Died. Sir Tyrone Guthrie, 70, theatrical producer, director and playwright; in Newbliss, Ireland. At 6 ft. 5 in., a towering figure physically as well as artistically, Sir Tyrone began his long affiliation with the Old Vic in 1933. Later he helped launch the Shakespeare Festival in Stratford, Ont., and the Tyrone Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis. He was an innovator who occasionally armed the bard's soldiers with machine guns and once staged Troilus and Cressida as an Edwardian piece, replacing Greeks with Prussians. Though he also directed Broadway hits, Sir Tyrone castigated the Great White Way as "a murderous...
...devise a version of Moby Dick as a one-man, 90-minute theater piece comes under the heading of "They said it couldn't be done." Jack Aranson has done it, superbly. Aranson was born in Los Angeles, trained as an actor at the Old Vic, toured Ireland, and in 1963 formed his own San Francisco City Theater. He is currently doing Moby Dick at college theaters in the Bay Area. Berkeley students are as still as un-dropped pins on the nights he appears...
...retired local farmer named Bill Kurtzmann, entered her in a tournament in nearby Naranndera. It turned out that there was no youth division, so the ten-year-old girl proceeded directly to win the women's singles. A few more like that and she caught the eye of Vic Edwards, one of Australia's ranking tennis coaches. Her father, a sheep-shearer, could hardly afford the cost of summer training sessions with Edwards in Sydney, so the townspeople of Barellan scraped up the money. By the time Evonne was 14, Edwards was so convinced of her future that...
...Vic Gold, Agnew's press secretary, said yesterday that "the Vice President's schedule is not firmed up more than two weeks in advance," but that there would be a press release around March 5 concerning Agnew's appearance in Boston...