Word: play
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Well-to-do Australians who used to import their art now decorate their homes with Sidney Nolan's poetic visions of Australia's "outback," William Dobell's savagely realistic portraits, or the landscapes of the late Aborigine Albert Na-matjira. And with Ray Lawler's play, Summer of the Seventeenth Doll-which got raves in London-Aussie audiences for the first time accorded box-office success to a play by an Australian about Australians in the Australian language...
...spreading across the country with the enthusiastic backing of the recordmakers. Amy Records came out with a single a month ago. Columbia followed a fortnight later with The Madison Time, hired two teen-age demonstration teams, sent them out on tour to plug the new dance. Jocks who play the records on the air find themselves deluged with teenage mail. As far west as San Francisco, reported KEWB Program Director Bill Enis last week, the Madison is "picking up like gangbusters...
...Complaining that the pros play too rough, Philadelphia's Wilt ("The Stilt") Chamberlain blurted out that he was retiring from the N.B.A. at the tender age of 23. Plainly exhausted by the season's grind, Wilt was also disheartened by his team's loss in the Eastern Division playoffs to the champion Boston Celtics. Once rested, Chamberlain will likely decide to console himself with a $100,000 salary offered by Philadelphia. Scoffed Boston's famed Bob Cousy: "Standing 6 ft. i in., it is difficult for me to feel sorry for a man 7 ft. tall...
Once More, With Feeling. In the cine-madaptation of the Broadway play, Yul Brynner's comedy is a little bald up, but the late Kay Kendall proves that she was a beautiful clown with a touch of genius...
...Miracle Worker. Actress Anne Bancroft plays the Irish tutor who draws the deaf-mute child Helen Keller (Patty Duke) into the light of language. The play is uncoordinated, but the acting makes for a deeply moving evening...