Word: critically
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Walter Kerr, 46, onetime drama professor at Catholic University and since 1951 theater critic for the New York Herald Tribune, who reads all scripts, adapted Oedipus Rex for Omnibus, is now adapting Richard Marsh's The Datchett Diamonds for the new classical mystery series, which he thought up. Kerr would like to do the historical plays of Shakespeare, in order, on consecutive nights, from King John to Henry VIII, is meanwhile having a rough time finding a Sherlock Holmes story for the mystery series because A. Conan Doyle's plots were so "simple-minded...
...personality is 100% integrity. He is a master with a commercial; last week Actress Shelley Winters called him a "method announcer," explained: "You really internalize your material." Murmurs Hugh: "If it isn't right taste-wise, I change it." His appeal to women is vast. Although a critic has said that "he looks like everybody's son-in-law, very sincere and stunningly good at nothing," a typical fan letter from Utica, N.Y. said: "Hugh Downs is what we older women think of as the ideal American...
...awestruck salesman had seen one of the world's fastest moving landmarks, a man who seems to have no permanent address but is often called "The Human Mailbox," an earth-blanketing pressagent more interesting than many of his clients. Onetime Manhattan p.r. man and for 20 years critic and columnist for the Hollywood Reporter, Irving Hoffman disengaged himself in 1952, began to roam all continents as a sort of gypsy flack. He is or has been everybody's buddy-from Wendell Willkie to Polly Adler, Truman Capote, Pablo Picasso, ferry boat captains, prostitutes, J. Edgar Hoover, the Maharani...
...guard in a 1920 payroll holdup in South Braintree, Mass.). In 1932 Blitzstein used the theme for a one-act opera titled Condemned. The work was never produced (it was burdened with, among other things, four choruses), and Blitzstein says he forgot all about it. Last summer an Italian critic reminded him of the work, and he immediately began thinking of a longer opera based on the same theme...
...that I was spending too much time with an idiot boy," he wrote. The play had been little more than "an overextension of a quite small idea." The practice of turning reviewers inside out is hardly exclusive to Broadway. Last week in London, the Daily Telegraph's exacting critic, W. A. Darlington, fumed over a sign outside the Strand Theater quoting him as urging the public: BY ALL MEANS GO AND SEE THIS PLAY. "If triviality is what you happen to be wanting," Darlington had actually written of The More the Merrier, "by all means go and see this...