Word: play
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ernest Hemingway Special (CBS 8:30-10 p.m.). A fine cast - Richard Burton, Maximilian Schell, Sally Ann Howes, Betsy von Furstenberg - gives The Fifth Column a fancy workout as the old maestro's only play (set in Madrid during the Spanish Civil War) bounces from bar to bedroom to bomb shelter...
World Wide 60 (NBC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). South to the Pole. A play-by-play account of U.S. Task Force 43's Assault on Antarctica. Color...
...talents are more or less unequal to his ambitions in every respect. His pseudo-Congreve is often pretty good--it is certainly one of the chief pleasures the play provides--but it often sounds self-conscious and sometimes resembles a parody of a bad historical novel. (A line like, "By gad, sir, she's as pretty a wench as ever I bedded!" seems right out of Forever Under.) Moreover, in his attempt to expand the scope of the eighteenth-century style to accommodate his expanded purpose, he resorts to frequent bursts of the stiffest, most intolerably pretentious sort of "fine...
...well-known, highly-styled comedy is just the sort of thing Americans can't play and neither the weaknesses nor the uniqueness of Children of Darkness are calculated to make it easier. Unaccountably, the production at the Charles Playhouse under Michael Murray's intelligent direction is quite a creditable one. Nicholas Coster as the young poet is even more annoying than the necessities of the part demand, and somewhat less young, but he and S. Harris Young as a subsidiary scoundrel are the only melancholy exceptions...
Sidney Bennett's tricky lighting that works, and a good set by Robert G. Skinner are other elements of a production that does nothing to obscure either the merits or the deficiencies of a play that has qualities of both...