Word: holmes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Like the sturdy Vermont farmhouse which gave it its title, The Southwest Corner has many more strengths than weaknesses. John Cecil Holm has created a thoughtful framework out of light material. His rather effective come tragedy is due almost entirely to sharply chiseled characterizations. For dramatically, the playwright's adaptation of Milder Walker's novel is somewhat shaky. His arrangement of ideas and characters is less clear-cut than her original fashioning of them. But masterful acting by a woman, not the heroine, buttresses this one weak timber, and makes The Southwest Corner a skillfully executed play...
This first act establishes the setting of the play, but without logical order. The dialogue is choppy, because each character blurts out a new fact rather than building on a previous one. Holm also bypasses a dramatic opportunity when he does not take full advantage of a storm in order to make the Vermont woman pathetic...
Honestly, Celeste! (Sun. 9:30 p.m., CBS) lets Comedienne Celeste Holm play hob with a newspaper office and appears to have been created by the second-string writers of NBC's Dear Phoebe, which is also a situation comedy laid in a newspaper office...
...annual "April in Paris" ball at the Waldorf (for Franco-American chari ties) were suntanned Mrs. John F. Kennedy, wife of Massachusetts' junior Senator, Radio-TV Chitchatter Sloan Simpson, estranged wife of ex-Ambassador to Mexico William O'Dwyer, and comely Actress Celeste (The King and 7) Holm. Amateur Mannequins Kennedy and Simpson modeled dazzling new Paris gowns, while Actress Holm warbled a song...
...general individuality of the thing itself is braced by the expertness of the production: by the crisp pacing of Director Norman Lloyd, the lively performing of a likable cast, the fresh, amusing Hanya Holm dances, the clean simple, vivid William and Jean Eckart sets. Most of the time The Golden Apple is not only more adventurous and more sophisticated than Broadway; it is also decidedly more amusing...