Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-07

colectlon Tor an nours ana
guide she's got Alexander
Security beat by q mile.
But first things first.
How did she look? Answer:
Fabulous.
Miss Taylor wore one cos
tune towards the end (the one
completed by the sparkling and
conspicuous emerald breach, a
gift from a well-known actor
friend that should be seen
soon in millions Of copies. The
hat and the collar gave her q
Renaissance look that fitted the
scene beautifully.
How did she perform? An
swer: Not bad.
She's a much improved reader
of lines, land London has the
lines, from Shakespeare to
Churchill), who shows the ef-
fects Of her association with a
well-known actor friend who
reads such lines famously.
There's one trick that Liz has
got down pat. namely using her
lower register. huskily. to en-
phasize key words at the close
Of a passage. She did this q
number Of times.
Few television shows - to
this observer - have ever been
conceived so cynically; the fact
that it turned out as we'll as
it did must be accounted one
of the new seasons most saving
moments.
And speaking Of unexpected
treats. did you catch Judy Gar
lands second show last night?
At one moment, on the stage,
there was q convocation Of the
great song belters Of three gen.
erations Ethel Norman,
Judy, and 20-year-old Barbra
Streisand. More about Judy's
show and Barbra tomorrow.
TV Reflections:
If you happened to be busy
elsewhere and missed what was
billed as Perry Mason's "his-
toric" first defeat. please forget
we mentioned it. Mason
didn't lose anything last week
except what's left of his CBS-9
audience in one Of the most
hackneyed whodunitS since
Charlie Chan retired unde-
feated.
Mason lost the case only
technically. His client was
found guilty Of murder and
sentenced to die but the lawyer
saved her at the last moment
by exposing the real killer. q
chap marked from the start
by his villainous eyebrows.
It's sad to see q series which
has given us so many hours Of
entertainment now apparently
content to run out its string
The only thing left for Perry
Mason now Is to haul the
writer's UP on charges Of deser-
ton or negligence. Contempt
Of court will do, too.
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Rawhide seems to have run
out Of steam too, same night
(CBS-9), If last weeks episode
is q fair sampling. The show
in which Michael Ansara played
q Comanche drover and James
Whitmore played the Union Of
ficer who had ordered the ex-
termination Of Comanche wom-
en- and children, was as dread
full q piece of writing as we've
encountered this year, including
the aforementioned Perry Ma
son case. The officer had gone
mad and was being taken to a
hospital. q fact which was with
held until the last for only
one reason-there would have
been no story without 1t.
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The Drama Parade: Richard
BOOne's play last week-the
second straight hit on this
promising anthology series.
This was a comedy drama Of
the mountain country with
Boone scoring nicely in q role
slightly reminiscent of his
Playhouse 80 vehicle with Kim
Stanley q few year back. 4.
Bethel Leslie, as the snake
woman" and jeanette Nolan,
as Boone's sister, continue to
impress. This was one Of those
quiet, moody little piece that
we thought TV couldn't do any,
more. It can-and thank good
ness there are q couple Of peo-
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