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Because of the religious connotations of projects designating St. Barbara as patron saint of artillery and St. Maurice as patron saint of infantry, addressees are directed to ensure a thorough understanding by subordinate commanders . . . [that] activities of this type or of a related nature will be limited to unofficial and voluntary participation by those interested...
...playwright has not used it to individualize the character who speaks it, is to say it as clearly and prettily as possible while still maintaining a reasonable degree of intensity. The Old Vic actors take this tack, and here again competence is the order of the evening, although Barbara Jefford is too solid and self-assured to be right for Viola. Half the pathos of the lorn and lonely girl, washed up on a strange and almost friendless coast, is lost when the actress gives the impression that she is perfectly capable of taking care of herself...
...Ophelia, Barbara Jefford goes mad quite prettily, in the most fetching rags you ever saw. One wonders why Laertes insists on ranting and shouting and making such a fuss, just as if something serious had happened to her. (It can be argued, however, that this incongruity exists to some extent in the text...
Billed as a "Serious Comedy," Period sounds more like a mad gothic anecdote. A couple of newly weds (Robert Webber and Barbara Baxley) drive up in a secondhand funeral limousine to the home of the groom's wartime buddy (James Daly). Left alone with the buddy, the bride ruefully sums up the first 36 hours of life with hubby: he shakes with an uncontrollable psychosomatic tremor, drinks incessantly "to keep warm," on their wedding night leaped at her like a satyr, frightening her so much she spent the whole night sitting up in a chair...
...Jack Benny Show (CBS, 7:30-8 p.m.). Now that the old professional tightwad has paid the price, M-G-M has finally given him permission to put on his parody of that grisly thriller, Gaslight. With Barbara Stanwyck, Benny and Bob Crosby...