Word: williams
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Time Order. In San Francisco, the Call Bulletin-on a bad day for the erring society page-noted the engagement of Regina Maxine Cornblum and Herbert William Handy, said "an April wedding is planned after their honeymoon...
Into this backwater comes a strange, wild-looking lad with ragged clothes and matted hair, who makes the locals look even paler to Pegeen than they did before. But the interloping "playboy" is not, as might be expected, a muscle-brained stud of the William Inge school, but a shy young man who is quite surprised to discover that by splitting open his father's head he has became a hero to everyone within miles of the Flaherty shebeen. "It's great luck and company I've won me in the end of time," he says, "--two fine women fighting...
...excellent actor by the name of John Casey. Mr. Casey sweats not, neither does he strain. He plays the shifty Patelin as one of those people who, when they are not leaning against something, contrive somehow to appear to be leaning against themselves; relaxed, charming, and funny. William D. Gordy has directed a cheerful and reasonably no-sweat performance, punctuated with occasional bits of funny-business, several of which are funny. If the script had not been one that only a high school French teacher could love, the results might have been quite pleasant...
Master & Slaves. Decca, developed mostly in Britain (but invented by William O'Brien, a U.S. engineer), is a "hyperbolic" system that uses groups of four stations. One of them is a master, the others "slaves" arranged around it 60-100 miles apart. The Decca receiver is set to receive the waves of all three slave stations, and measure the microseconds of time they take to reach it. When the waves from two stations arrive at the same time, the airplane must be at the same distance from both stations...
Requiem for a Nun. Nobel Prizewinner William Faulkner's play is not a model of playmaking, but it is feelingly and uncompromisingly written around the great themes of God, sin and redemption. With a notable cast headed by Ruth Ford and Zachary Scott...