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Most of the actors in the film do not deserve the plaudits they won on the stage. Leif Erikson plays the husband as such a dumb galoot that it is impossible to believe that a sensitive girl like Deborah would ever have married him. John Kerr puts remarkably little imagination into the part of the boy; it .often reads much better than he plays. it. Deborah Kerr, on the other hand, is excellent: always in scale, always in key. And Norma Crane does some wonderful flobbing around the screen as the slavey and general grab bag at the local hash...
Author Yamata (Lady of Beauty) is quick to admit that some geishas are merely beautiful dumb brunettes. But the trio whose authentic life stories she tells in her spare, grave and yet oddly debonair book, were bright, courageous women possessed of enough tragic dignity to become enshrined in Japan's human legend...
...less pretentious level are the productions to be given by the Tufts Arena Theatre in Medford. The actors there will present some rather off-the-beaten-track shows, including W.O. Somin's "Assassination," a political murder; Anatole France's "The Man Who Married a Dumb Wife;" and the New England premiere of Alejandro Casona's "The Jaracanda Tree...
...dead and dumb and done...
...found anywhere in the U.S. Built for the low cost of $16,000 per bed, the hospitals were designed for maximum efficiency, minimum operating cost. Each "chain-store" hospital is laid out around a central service core, from which food and drugs move by assembly belt and dumb-waiter to dispatch stations on every floor. A centralized administration and service center at Williamson, W. Va. will keep the books and do the housekeeping, e.g., maintenance, filling of prescriptions, laundry, for the whole system. Thus the cost of administering the medical program has been cut to 5.4% of the $42.8 million...