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Delora Mae went about her chores at the Isbells' house one night last month as calmly and competently as always; she fed six-year-old Donna and eight-year-old Roy, sat with them in the living room watching a murder movie called Repeat Performance, as it nickered in on the television screen from Los Angeles' station KTLA. She put them to bed, washed the dishes, and, with these chores done, walked back to the living room and stretched out on the couch...
...serious student. She has to learn her roles letter-perfect, and for a good reason: "I'm as blind as a bat." Without her glasses, she can hardly see either the prompter or the conductor. Conductors like her because she is quick, clever and agreeable, "no prima donna in temperament...
Radio Theater (Mon. 9 p.m., CBS). To Please a Lady, with Donna Reed, John Hodiak, Adolphe Menjou...
...gets buried in such a pile-up of broken illusions that the movie looks like a put-up job. Football brings him fleeting glory, leaves him no time to study, wins him only the snooty tolerance of Jackson's aristocrats and (until the fadeout) the well-born girl (Donna Reed) he loves. It crushes his body and his self-respect to feed the ambitions of a string-pulling alumnus (Sidney Blackmer) and a coach (Otto Hulett) with the face and temperament of a Gestapo...
...your book review of Party Going, by Henry Green (TiME, Sept. 17), you say, "What remains in 1951 is the shell of a satire with about as much yoke as a ping pong ball." Your word play on eggs falls short of U.S. AA grade . . . DONNA CONNELL Napa, Calif...