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DYLAN is another acting triumph for Alec Guinness, as he embodies the poetic fire, the playful wit, the alcoholic antics and the fierce urge to self-destruction that constituted the life and legend of Dylan Thomas...
...pretty much played out, NBC's Chet Huntley and David Brinkley still managed to be more diverting and amusing than the other so-called anchor men. Brinkley pretzels himself in an attempt to give the impression that he is doing his best to contain most of his natural wit, when actually he is straining to be funny. His best effort last week was his description of Illinois' Everett Dirksen as "a Shakespearean actor manque...
...take of Huntley and Brinkley. CBS's congenial Walter Cronkite carried all the burden of coordinating CBS's coverage, while Eric Sevareid would appear every so often as a kind of deus ex machina and deliver auroral analyses uninhibited by routine details, or a shaft of wit, as when he recalled H. L. Mencken's description of a convention orator as coming from "a home for extinct volcanoes...
...David Rittenhouse as the rogue, Autolycus, and Bruce Kornbluth as the shepard more than compensate for these difficulties. Repleat with disguises, dialects, and wit, Rittenhouse continually befuddles the shepherd folk and has a great time in the process. So does the audience. Kornbluth muddles about with engaging senility as the creaky stepfather of Perdita. The young lovers, Perdita (Barbara Jean Friend) and Florizel (Louis Lopez-Cepero), are god although somewhat less than enchanting since they are a bit lost amid all the rustic revelry...
...opening night, Monette at first forced his rakishness and wit but after a fine soliloquy following the sonnet scene, his roguish skepticism seemed more natural. Miss Friend's controlled humor complemented her royal bearing. Rittenhouse looked nice...