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...paper, the group is an assembled dream. The permanent acting company consists of 26 actors working under 2½year contracts, and includes such names as Jason Robards Jr., David Wayne, Hal Holbrook, Ralph Meeker, Mildred Dunnock, Zohra Lampert and Salome Jens. About half the actors are young newcomers who are being trained as they go, both in productions and in daily classes that have been going on for more than a year. The group's guiding lights are Robert Whitehead, who was one of Broadway's most successful producers (Member of the Wedding), and Director Elia Kazan...
Wednesday, February 5 HALLMARK HALL OF FAME (NBC, 7:30-9 p.m.).-Jason Robards Jr. stars in an adaptation of Robert E. Sherwood's Abe Lincoln in Illinois. Color...
...junior, can barge unannounced into the office of any other-with the exception of the minister, his secretary-general and the chief of personnel. Individualism is the fashion: if he wants to, an officer can bring his dog to the Quai, and even Couve de Murville occasionally appears with Jason, the son of Xenophon...
...craggy-faced despair and large-voiced grief, Jason Robards Jr. roams the bare multileveled arena stage of the center's temporary Greenwich Village home to narrate and act out the Miller's tale in a brilliant, grueling, three-hour performance. In the beginning, there was Mom. She is an angry, unfulfilled woman whose passport to college was revoked by a family-arranged marriage with a shipping merchant whom she regards as her inferior and lashes with verbal contempt. Infused with guilt by the warring parents and wanting to make up to Mom for her frustration and unhappiness...
...Jason Robards, Jr. has the central role of Quentin, surely one of the longest in all drama. Robards' work in the past has varied from a transcendent Hickey in O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh to an abysmal attempt at Macbeth. But here he is playing at his best--a performance of enormous power and rich detail. At first I felt his diction was too monochromatic. But the wisdom of this became apparent when he burst forth later in the argument over tattling to Congress, or reacted to the news of Lou's suicide, or carried on the climactic battle...