Word: wilder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...APARTMENT. The sourly funniest U.S. comedy since 1959's Some Like It Hot-which also starred Jack Lemmon and was also directed by Billy Wilder...
...Brown: "Jago might indulge his emotions, act with a fervour that Brown thought excessive and in bad taste, . . . show nothing like the solid rational decorums which was Brown's face to the world. Brown's affection did not budge. In the depth of his heart he loved Jago's wilder outbursts, and wished that he could have gone that way himself. Had he sacrificed too much in reaching his own robust harmony? Had he become too dull a dog? For Brown's harmony had not arrived in a minute. People saw that fat contented man, rested on his steady strength...
...equally happy meeting of food, drink and the classics occurs every Sunday afternoon in New Haven, Conn., at a nightclub known as the Playback, which attracts fans like Author Thornton Wilder, Diplomat Chester Bowles and Composer Quincy Porter to hear serious music spiked with first-rate jazz. Playback is the plaything of Willie Ruff and Dwike Mitchell, the two jazzmen who touched off a modest international incident last year when they introduced cheering Russian audiences to the intricacies of the Cool. Equally at home in jazz and classical music (Ruff has a master's degree in music from Yale...
Dave's Place (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). A Garroway "at home" attended by Cliff Norton, Julie London, Joe Wilder's Jazz Group and the New York Woodwind Quintet, among others...
...same theatre saw the HDC reach its climax with an unforgettably moving production of Wilder's Our Town, under the inspired direction of Stephen H. Randall '60, who obviously raised his performers higher than they themselves thought capable. I ought to tick off every one of the two dozen or so in the cast, but must content myself with mentioning the Stage Manager of Mark J. Mirsky '61 (who therein displayed enormous progress in acting, an impression confirmed by his expertly elocuted Thersites in the recent Troilus and Cressida), the Mrs. Gibbs of De French, the Mrs. Webb of Dixie...