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...play is about two sisters, their orphaned nephew, their colored maid who pretends she is an Indian, and several concerned villagers--concerned because the meek, faded, slightly demented sister has run away from home (with sister, maid, and a stray retired judge), away from the other sister, the fierce faded sister, who wanted to make a big business out of the meek one's only possession: a secret--a recipe for an effective medicine, made from herbs. The fugitives flee to a tree house; in a few speeches about themselves they overcome some of their loneliness...
Mildred Dunnock gives the film's best performance in a small role as the old maid schoolteacher without whom no small town is complete. But there is much to be said for Arthur Kennedy as an unfortunate rapist ("I never had nuthin' I ever wanted"), and for Lloyd Nolan as the town doctor. Others involved are Russ Tamblyn as Miss Varsi's boy friend and Lee Philips as Miss Turner's. They maintain the film's standard without exceeding...
...Rome Opera brought in hefty, promising Italian Soprano Anita Cerquetti. "She sang like a peaceful cow," said one critic, but she won a tumultuous ovation. Meanwhile the Opera management withheld Soprano Callas' fee (rumored close to $2,000). The week's last word belonged to a maid at the Quirinale, who said: "She cannot have lost her voice. I heard her screaming at the waiter...
...that does not help much. With scarcely a sign of talent, the authors of Miss Isabel have tackled a stage subject that might make genius stumble. Their aging, white-haired heroine becomes mentally ill and imagines that she is a young girl and that her embittered, put-upon old-maid daughter is her mother. One act later, Miss Isobel imagines that she is a tiny child who keeps caterpillars in a shoe...
...large coffin which Mr. Hirst used as a bar. He was 90 when he died; the coffin was finally emptied of potables and, filled at last with Hirst, was "borne to the grave by eight stout widows." Mr. Hirst's wish had been for eight old-maid pallbearers, but the promise of a guinea apiece "was not large enough to overcome the shyness habitual to the maiden state; so, in the end, Mr. Hirst had to fall back upon widows, who, being more accessible, were regarded by him as not being worth more than half a crown each...