Word: play
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nill I, simply because they want to know how it looks on a stage, and they may never get another chance. But less fanatic citizens are earnestly advised to stay away from this production, since the Tufts Arena Theater is not equipped to do even minimal justice to a play which is inferior Shaw at best...
That was the simple outline of the play; what made it exceptional, as played by an excellent cast including Mildred Dunnock, was the unpretentious directness with which Edwin Cranberry's short story reached the TV screen. If at times too deliberate, the show was neither sentimental nor afraid of sentiment, skillfully played on the viewers' emotions with the cool, sweet memory of an earlier trip to Czardis when the father was still strong and happy; with the boys' childish, poignant attempt to find a present they can take to him; above all, with the wrenching contrast between...
...play was particularly notable in the hopeless desert of summer programing, but it would have stood out at any time as the first of a new series-The Robert Herridge Theater-that has long been one of the finest unseen programs ever assembled. Producer Hf-ridge began it over a year ago at CBS Films, a semi-independent TV packaging firm, but as show after show went on tape, the series looked so widely various that potential customers felt they did not know what they might be buying. In ten months, many agencies and sponsors smelled quality and kept their...
...sold at last in the U.S.-but only in five cities-the series is mainly dramatic, ranging from John Millington Synge's Riders to the Sea to adaptations of Edgar Allan Poe's The Tell-Tale Heart and Shirley Jackson's coldly disturbing The Lottery. A play called The Gunfighter sends the average western up in gun smoke as it concentrates with the tension of High Noon on the 30 minutes that precede a professional killing. Always varied in mood, the series trips along with Burlesque Pantomimist Irving Hoffman in some splendidly kookie blackouts, stages a Frankie...
...that year the top prize of $50 went to an artist of quite a different sort. A birdlike little (5 ft. 2 in.) man with a realistic style and an irrepressible sense of humor, Louis Bosa, 55, has always been fascinated by "the silly human things people do. I play detective all the time." Last week a bit of Bosa's amiable detective work won him first prize ($1,000) at the 25th annual show at the Butler Institute of American Art in Youngstown, Ohio...