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...America seems to have cornered the musical market and with Williams, Miller, Wilder, and Inge to match against Fry and Rattigan, perhaps has the edge in straight drama as well. On the other hand, American actors cannot meet the English standard, and the competition gets more acute daily; outside the Old Vic, the poster announces The Merry Wives of Windsor and scribbled below by a fan "starring Princess Margaret...
...take on fresh water. When the crew glimpsed flashing lights on the supposedly uninhabited island, an armed small boat was sent in to investigate. Awaiting the sailors on the beach, waving his arms and dancing, was an extraordinary figure "cloth'd in Goat-Skins, who look'd wilder than the first Owners of them. He had been [cast away] on the Island Four Years and four Months . . His name was Alexander Selkirk, a Scotch man ... He had so much forgotten his Language for want of Use, that we could scarce understand...
...rally is scheduled to get under way at 12:30 p.m. from the Wilder Dam parking lot, between Hanover and White River Junction, and will be raced through backroads of central New Hampshire...
Insulted Ego. A vigorous opposition to the new trend comes from Veteran TV Producer Fred Coe, who guided the Television Playhouse through its earliest, most realistic days. Coe, who last month produced Thornton Wilder's The Skin of Our Teeth on NBC, thinks TV is becoming the sick man of the arts: "I don't know why the American people should give Ed Sullivan 65% of the audience against Helen Hayes, Mary Martin and The Skin of Our Teeth. I'm puzzled...
...electioneering was successful. Appearing for the first time after a summer of well-publicized tiffing. Funsters Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis were so busy patching up their feud that they mostly forgot to be funny. For the second week in a row Thornton Wilder proved himself TV's most adaptable playwright...