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...GLASS MENAGERIE (CBS, 9-11 p.m.). Tennessee Williams' gem, with Shirley Booth, Hal Holbrook, Pat Hingle and Barbara Loden...
This conclusion by itself would at least be defensible. But some of the pruning was done in order to insert some of the preceding play, notably the scene (II, iv) where Falstaff and Prince Hal take turns impersonating the king. This is a wonderful scene, but belongs where it was written. Anthony has ruined Shakespeare's line of development...
...Henry IV, Falstaff and Hal spend a lot of time carousing and frolicking together. In the present play, the dramatist has very carefully decreased Hal's participation in the comic scenes in order to prepare the prince -- and us -- for Hal's eventual and necessary rejection of Falstaff and the world of wantonness and waste he represents. Anthony has missed this point completely. What the Bard hath put asunder, let no man join together...
...ailing Henry IV (Joseph Sommer) first enters clothed in rich blue, accompanied by monks singing a Kyrie (sloppily). He kneels at a priodieu and delivers his great Sleep soliloquy competently enough to make us look forward to his scene with Prince Hal. When that comes, Hal (John Cunningham) takes the hand of the sleeping king and kisses it -- a good touch. But then the director has turned the confrontation into a screaming nightmare. The king, who will be dead in a few minutes, gets out of bed, yells and lurches about like a Hercules; and Hal responds with a torrent...
...always been such a good nominee," the whacky Mame wept happily. Some of the other winners: Richard Kiley, 44, judged the best musical actor for his Don Quixote in Man of La Mancha; Rosemary Harris, 38, best dramatic actress, in The Lion in Winter; Hal Holbrook, 41, best dramatic actor, for Mark Twain Tonight; and sardonic Producer David Merriclc, 54, and German Playwright Peter Weiss, 49, for Marat/Sade...