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While these older folk (well played by Maureen Stapleton, Sig Arno, Sanford Meisner) hold Behrman's loose-leaf memory book together, younger ones are falling in love and inquiring of life. Chief of these is Willie (Eli Wallach), an unstable college student who goes in for long words and large thoughts, is forever losing himself trying to find himself, unavailingly loves one girl, is unavailingly loved by another. For all his lostness, he seems an essentially comic type till suddenly-out of Winesburg, Ohio more than Worcester, Mass.-he kills himself. Earlier, Behrman nowhere sounds the few right notes...
Shirley Temple Storybook (NBC, 8-9 p.m.). Eli Wallach in Hans Christian Andersen's The Emperor's New Clothes...
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Eli Wallach, a method actor who took the trouble to learn acting as well as method, as a crusading Puerto Rican lawyer in New York...
Drink to Me Only (by Abram S. Ginnes and Ira Wallach) is one of those titles that proclaim something farcical while not guaranteeing anything funny. The play is indeed an anything-goes sort of script, and all too much of it goes awry. Perhaps the producers decided not to fret over the script, thinking that the nub of Drink lay in the staging, in what that master of accelerating insanity, George Abbott, could pipe into a yarn of careening drunkenness. Director Abbott and his downer of Scotch, Tom Poston, constitute the brighter side of the occasion. But Drink...
Line Stealers. The intrigue and double-dealing became almost a part of the actors' lives. They began to suspect each other of stealing lines. Eli Wallach, playing Poskrebyshev, Stalin's secretary, exploded and complained that his part had been cut to nothing. "The audience would have a better show if they watched the rehearsals," cracked an amused technician. "There's more drawing aside and whispering here than I've ever seen. Probably more than there ever was in the Kremlin...