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...this sense, Julie's emotional power is the opposite of the kind most strong emotional actors have. It is intensive, not extensive. From Booth to Brando, audiences have loved the actor who can spill his guts in their laps. Julie's instinct is not toward dissolution, but solution. In her search for clarity she has developed a more conscious craft than most of her contemporaries have. "When Julie is at the height of her most emotional scene," says Fellow Actor Karloff, "she is always in complete control of herself, just as a fine pianist is always master...
...that not particularly unusual. Gerald Gillespie's story might have appeared in the Advocate, as could have D. J. Hughes' poem, Mallarme at Tournon. In terms of quality, the poetry in the current issue is rather unrewarding, especially compared with the last issue which included Allen Grossman, Stephen Booth and Gregory Corso. Canticle for Simonetta by Richard Sewell is uneven, at times forced, and fails to achieve an essential opposition. What is left is a good idea unsuccessfully worked out and one or two lines like "Beauty alone is less than life should wear...
...touchdown was the 11th of the season for Ward, the Ivy League leading scorer, who now is one touchdown short of the modern Yale scoring record. This was set in 1929 by Albie Booth...
...Sullivan Show (Sun. 8 p.m., CBS). With Shirley Booth, Joyce Grenfell, Edith Piaf...
...play, The Desk Set, after a reasonably bright start, goes steadily downhill by really going nowhere at all. As a feed-box for Shirley Booth, there is more to be said for it. She has seldom been better at the rueful smile or the sugar-coated sting. It would be inaccurate to say that in The Desk Set she does everything but recite Hiawatha, because she does recite Hiawatha. She also recites, in jive rhythm, Curfew Shall Not Ring Tonight. She floors an efficiency expert with her knowledge, she has a laughing fit, she has a drinking scene. Again...