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...along. Thud it does, because it lacks the tough, painful insights that made Marty's small world loom large. Actress Page, who can make a wallflower look like a man-eating plant, strives to read depth and pathos into a role that cracks under the strain, for Scenarist Tad Mosel's out-of-towners can only be taken lightly. They are stereotypes swathed in homespun, plain folks played for hicks...
...Guide is based on a small, sensitive novel by Indian Author R. K. Narayan. In this gross adaptation, filmed in India, Writer Pearl S. Buck and U.S. Director Tad Danielewski leap to their tasks like Yankee traders setting up a souvenir stand in front of the Taj Mahal. What they are peddling are ersatz views of modern India...
...Home will move many an audience to tears, but mostly for the wrong reasons. A watered-up treatment of the Tad Mosel play adapted for Broadway from the late James Agee's A Death in the Family, it pictures the laying to rest of Jay Follet, a young husband and father whose sudden death in an automobile accident teaches his family that the ties that bind are a tangled skein. Producer David Susskind and associates made the story a straightforward tearjerker-and left out the subtle, uncannily sensitive heart...
...Flight. Such restaurant chains as Stouffer, Howard Johnson, and Schrafft's are using the ovens to heat precooked portions quickly; Manhattan's La Fonda del Sol uses one to warm up tortillas. The newest Hilton hotels also have ultrasonic ovens to make their food service faster. Tad's steak-house chain (eleven restaurants) has set up an experimental restaurant in Manhattan, where customers select complete meals from freezer chests, bring them to their tables and pop them into individual ovens that heat them up in about two minutes right by the tables. The chain plans...
Died. Francis Eugene ("Tad") Walter, 69, Democratic Representative from Pennsylvania for 16 consecutive terms and longtime chairman (during Democratic years) of the House Subcommittee on Immigration and the House Un-American Activities Committee, who unyieldingly resisted attempts to change his controversial 1952 McCarran-Walter Immigration Act and relentlessly investigated Communist infiltration in Hollywood and in teaching, yet for all his reputation as a conservative, voted so often for those "damn liberal" bills that the vote-watching Americans for Democratic Action gave him an 80% liberal rating; of leukemia; in Washington...