Word: havilland
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...violence. A stranger appears, announcing with grinning malevolence that the handyman has escaped from an insane asylum and must return. When the stranger pulls a knife, Thompson kills him. The rest of the play shows Thompson, acquitted by a jury, bleakly, desperately dragging his sickly wife (Olivia de Havilland) from one neighbor's house to another to defend himself and his deed. Then he blows his brains...
...Wine induced a special glow, partly because of Director Peckinpah's achievement in adhering to the bluntness of the tragedy, partly because of the ungirdled brilliance of his players. Robards, bedecked with a massive home-grown mustache, spread backwoods brio all over the crusty landscape, and Olivia de Havilland, all frailty and flutteriness, tottered after him without losing a step. Author Porter was astonished that show busi ness could be so kind. "After what they did to my poor Ship of Fools," she said last week, "I was just crushed. I didn't expect anything like Noon Wine...
...STAGE 67 (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). Katherine Anne Porter's novella, Noon Wine, takes on added body with performances by Jason Robards Jr., Olivia de Havilland, Per Oscarsson and Theodore Bikel...
Died. Francis Trounson Hearle, 78, co-founder and onetime chairman (1950-54) of Britain's vast De Havilland Aircraft Co., an ex-mechanic who helped Sir Geoffrey de Havilland build his first biplane in 1908, later masterminded D.H.'s massive World War II output, including 7,781 Mosquitoes, the famed twin-engined plywood bombers that could hit 404 m.p.h.; of a ruptured aorta; in Hertfordshire, England...
...Cassidy was read mostly for her attacks. Her reviews were often florid, sometimes shockingly inaccurate-she once confused Haydn with Prokofiev-but rarely dull. After seeing Olivia de Havilland in Candida, she wrote: "A pallid, one-dimensional heroine in a kind of comic-strip Shaw. When she enters, she is an interruption, nothing more." She dismissed Conductor Rafael Kubelik: "The symphony was as shapeless as his curious beat, being distorted by arms stiff as driving pistons or limp as boiled spaghetti...