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...might be able to stir up more trouble for their favorite campaign target, Vice President Nixon, by inviting a sudden-death competition in their own ranks. Immediately after the convention nominated him, Stevenson went to a two-room suite (decorated with prints of American birds, e.g., the black-billed cuckoo and the boat-tailed grackle) in the Stock Yard Inn, next to the convention amphitheater, to talk over his decision with Democratic leaders...
...conventional ding-dong--bells consists of seventeen clangers weighing between 22 pounds and 13 tons. Up to now, at 12:30 on Sundays and once every other week before the famed "high table," the bell-ringers have gotten some nicely coordinated noise from their bells in the cloud-cuckoo-land over Lowell House...
Adapted by Director David (Great Expectations') Lean and Novelist H. E. Bates from the Broadway success, The Time of the Cuckoo, the script has dropped overboard many of the plot gimmicks that Playwright Arthur Laurents used as cogs for stage action. With them go some of the harsher truths about the career girl's character and therefore any possibility of comparing Hepburn's performance with that of Shirley Booth in the stage play. The movie is scarcely more than a charming idyl, and it ends only because Kate is convinced that "All my life...
...producer in his own right (Twelfth Night), Stevens teamed up last fall with topnotch Broadway Producer Robert (The Time of the Cuckoo) Whitehead and fellow Tycoon Robert Dowling (City Investing Co.) to form a glittering $1,000,000 triumvirate. Its aims: "To produce plays and operate playhouses" on a businesslike, year-round basis-and to take risks for art's sake as well as to make a profit...
...Producers Theatre, Inc. stay close to Broadway. In its beehive offices on Times Square, a score of picked young actors meet thrice weekly to read and recite; from them, Producer Whitehead hopes to build up a topnotch repertory group. In Venice, P.T. is already filming The Time of the Cuckoo (star: Katharine Hepburn). But the triumvirate is just beginning to branch out. Tycoon Dowling hopes eventually to put actors, directors and playwrights on a salary status, "as at General Motors," so that talented people can stay in the theater instead of being forced to go elsewhere to earn a living...