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...Vivian T. Pomeroy of the First Parish Church (Unitarian) in Milton will officiate at a memorial service in honor of the late Bliss Perry, former Francis Lee Higginson Professor of English Literature, Emeritus, at 4 p.m. tomorrow in Appleton Chapel. Howard Mumford Jones, professor of English, will assist Rev. Pomeroy...
Before she revolts, Molly is a monosyllabic young lady, who mopes in the summer house, reading comic books (Super Mouse). Although she is the closest thing to a heroine in the play, Molly is dangerous when peeved, since she apparently murders the neurotic young boarder, Vivian. In spite of her faults, however, Molly snares a husband, who loves her bacause she only "half hears" him, a good thing considering the rot he talks about. doggedly he bears with her through exchanges like: "Molly, we can't stay here playing cards in the Lobster Bowl cocktail lounge until...
Hovering in the background of all this, is Vivian's widowed mother, an alcoholic since the death of the daughter who despised her ("My bird, my bird" . . . "She hopped from the cliff like a cricket"). Miss Dunnock seems uncertain whether she should be tragic or pitifully absurd, as she flings hot-dogs around the stage and talks of the husband who never loved her. In any case, she gets little sympathy, least of all from Mrs. Eastman Cuevas, who tells the widow who clutches her hysterically and begs her not to leave: "Stop brooding!", a line reminiscent of Charles Addams...
MacDowell: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2 (Vivian Rivkin; Vienna State Opera Orchestra conducted by Dean Dixon; Westminster). MacDowell, a contemporary of Debussy, is one of the few U.S. composers whose seat in the hall of fame is already secure, and his concertos were his entry ticket. Their style is closer to the romantic outbursts of Grieg and Schumann than to the moderns, and Pianist Rivkin gives them a rousing romantic reading while her conductor-husband gives her firm orchestral support...
Philco TV Playhouse (Sun. 9 p.m., NBC). Vivian (Guys and Dolls) Blaine in Double Jeopardy...