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There was one change in the lineup as a result of a challenge match yesterday. Frank Ripley and Vic Niederhoffer took over the number one doubles position from Paul Sullivan and Chum Steele. Ripley, who plays third singles, and Niederhoffer, who holds down the number two position, played their best tennis of the year to upset Sullivan and Steele, who had beaten them in a previous challenge match...
...Vic Niederhoffer lost his first set but came back to trip Tom Kortmann, 3-6, 8-6, 6-4 in the number two match. Frank Ripley crushed Joel Paschow, 6-1, 6-1, at number three...
...kept calling, "Make me hear you. Don't shout; but make me hear you." Ten years later, as Richard would all but whisper, "O! what a rogue and peasant slave am I," every princely syllable went special-delivery to the outermost rafters of the Old Vic...
Wince & Wait. By that time, Richard Burton was a long way from the Old Vic. As his stage career fanned to promise and even moments of greatness, he salted his interludes with movies. Everyone does this. Sir Laurence Olivier was in Spartacus. But Burton's serious work on the stage began to atrophy as he gave himself increasingly to films, playing opposite an odd assortment of ladies?Lana Turner, Olivia de Havilland, Jean Simmons?in weak pictures wherein he was miscast. Given his professional fears and the economic spareness of his beginnings, it is not hard to understand...
...performance of Hamlet as I can remember." Years later, when Winston Churchill?The Valiant Years was under preparation for television, its producers asked Sir Winston who he thought should do the voice of Churchill. "Get that boy from the Old Vic," said...