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...week, NBC's two-hour-long production of the ANTA revival of The Skin of Our Teeth, was in some measure a sales pitch for mankind in general. Concocted for the theater when the iconoscope was still a gadget little known outside the laboratory, Playwright Thornton Wilder's crazy, mixed-up parable of the human race is a tale told largely in TV's own terms. Its soap-opera domestic situation, its firm reliance on interpolated newsreels, its constant comic interruptions and its narrow escapes from the maudlin and the mawkish by a hasty retreat into...
Sympathetic Look. Less wide-eyed in wonder than Wilder's play and a literate drama in its own right was the U.S. Steel Hour's A Wind from the South, starring Julie Harris and Donald Woods. James Costigan's play took a sympathetic look at an unmarried girl of 30, growing old with her unmarried brother in modern Ireland. It found no simple answer to the barren hopelessness of the young in a land where the old have forsaken their hope...
...Seven Year Itch. Marilyn Monroe and Tom Ewell help Director Billy Wilder make George Axelrod's comedy an engaging romp (TIME, June...
After starring as a wanton in NBC's two-hour TV version of Thornton Wilder's The Skin of Our Teeth, peripatetic Musi-comedienne Mary Martin flew to Jamaica to rehearse with Noel Coward for CBS's Ford Star Jubilee to be telecast next month, meanwhile telling one and all of her projected winter trip with husband Richard Halliday to the remote state of Goias, in Brazil. The spot she is dreaming about is 14° south of the equator, 600 miles from the coast, 2,500 ft. up a mountain on a lush plateau full...
...Seven Year Itch. Marilyn Monroe and Tom Ewell help Director Billy Wilder make George Axelrod's comedy an engaging romp (TIME, June...