Word: wilder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...company of Harvard actors will tour the South Pacific next summer playing Thorton Wilder's Our Town, if production plans of Joel F. Henning '61, who is organizing the tour, receive final approval from the Department of the Army. Word from Army officials is expected within a week...
...Carney, as the Stage Manager in Thornton Wilder's Our Town (NBC). "Nothing should stand out about this guy," said Carney about his role, and he may have carried a good judgment too far, was sometimes too emotionless compared to the rest of the cast, directed by José Quintero with the same intensity that he brought to O'Neill on Broadway. The play itself once again emerged as an unfailingly touching, tender hymn to life...
...Carney Show (NBC, 8:30-10 p.m.). Thornton Wilder's modern classic, Our Town, with Carney as the stage manager who tells all because he knows...
...Billy Wilder's Sabrina has been around since 1954 and is back at our favorite theatre. It is a very good film: and, for a "slick comedy of manners, money, and martinis," sensibly written and surprisingly intimate in spots. Unfortunately, some bad jumps in the soundtrack indicate the print that the Brattle has this week is not a terribly good...
...Long was appointed territorial public-welfare director, and he was Acting Governor during the turbulent pineapple workers' strike of 1947 and the longshoremen's strike of 1949. President Truman appointed him tenth territorial Governor in 1951, and he held office unobtrusively until displaced by a Republican (Samuel Wilder King in 1953). Long has held office as territorial Senator since 1956. He felt so confident of his election to the Senate that he took a one-week sabbatical after the primary to attend an international Lions convention in New York...