Word: writer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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DURING more than 30 years as Latin teacher and football coach at Long Island's Woodmere Academy, Poet-Classicist Rolfe Humphries taught his football players something more than buck-lateral strategy. Interested in everything from foreign news to theater, he showed them that a writer is well served by wide interests. One skinny end on the 1935 team learned the lesson particularly well...
...minimal staff maintains the school--LeFevre, the president, chief instructor, and writer-publicist; his wife, Loy, who cooks for the community; and two women who serve as secretary and treasurer...
...strange as anything about the 28 minute film is the fact that its producers -Swiss-born Photographer Robert Frank, 35, and Painter Alfred Leslie, 32-financed it ($20,000) largely through Wall Street's Jack Dreyfus (the Dreyfus Fund) and Stock Market Letter Writer Walter Gutman (Shields & Co.). After its recent premiere at the San Francisco Film Festival, Judge Barnaby (Matador) Conrad declared: "I liked it until Kerouac got the 'smart jacks'-what I send my child to bed for doing." But Producers Frank and Leslie, now busily showing the film to distributors, are confident that...
Jolly's Progress (by Lonnie Coleman) concerns a wild, scared, quick-witted young Alabama Negro housemaid who, having been seduced by her employer and sent packing by his wife, finds sanctuary with an enlightened writer. While the writer is playing Professor Higgins to the girl's Liza, the town assumes he is playing Don Juan. Preachers rail, hooded figures threaten, before a ladylike Jolly goes North for further schooling. Beyond some vivid touches by Eartha Kitt, the play has small merit. It is so gagged up with breezy situations, crude stereotypes and comic characters that the racial angle...
...Magician (Swedish). A Kafkan swirl of flesh and symbols by Sweden's Writer-Director Ingmar Bergman...