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Kathryn Humphreys as Helen also offers a few surprises. Her beauty is gamin rather than statuesque, and she plays Helen as if she had just stepped out of "Born Yesterday." Unfortunately, however, the lines do not always fit the Judy Holiday-dumb blonde stereotype. As a result the meaning of the lines is occasionally lost together with some of the story's coherence...
...does an unsentimental attitude toward a deaf, dumb and blind child make "unforgettable theater?" See THEATER, The Miracle Worker...
...Running. In London, Accountant Francis George Swain, 46, got a two-year prison stretch for embezzling about $8,400 in animal-welfare funds from the Blue Cross-Our Dumb Friends League, got no leniency for having shot the wad betting on such dumb friends as greyhounds and race horses...
...other night at dinner I sat next to a good-looking grey-haired man and I picked up his place card. It said. 'Mr. McDonald.' Well, Mr. McDonald could be anybody. I said, 'What do you do, Mr. McDonald?' and he said, 'You dumb broad, I'm on the front pages all over the country!' I: Gwen's dinner companion: striking A.F.L.-C.I.O. Steelworkers Boss David McDonald (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
Gibson is extraordinarily lucky to have the assistance of Penn as director and of Patty Duke in the role of Helen. Since Helen cannot speak, her every movement must convey something to the audience; Helen cannot be played as a mere dumb animal, for the entire play is meant to prove that there is something inside her, waiting to be released. Under Penn's direction, Miss Duke is more than a success in this awfully taxing part; without ever uttering a word, she is the most memorable child actress to appear in years...