Kathy Pinna
Young Performer Must Buck Lunts
By Cecil Smith
There is a rather plaintive note in the mail from a fine young actor named Teno Pollick who gave one of the really marvelous performances of the season nine, an "Eleventh Hour" play called "The Seventh Day of Creation." Teno played the r******* son of Katy Jurado in the drama, which was one of the most moving shows in the psychiatric series and as fine a play as the series has offered.
Teno writes that the drama was originally shown against such formidable opposition that few member of the industry saw it. "It's the only TV show I've done, and I was hoping that people in the industry might see it on the rerun," he wrote. However, it is being rerun tonight (Channel 4 at 10) and this time its opposition is no less than Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne in the last of the "Steel Hour" plays. "Such," says Teno, "is life."
As deeply moving as was "The Seventh Day of Creation," it would be injudicious to tout the program over this rare television appearance of the Lunts, America's greatest acting team. The play is Sir James Barrie's "The Old Lady Shows Her Medals" with Miss Fontanne as the old charwoman, Mrs. Dowey, who pretends to have a son in the front lines of World War I. The play was adapted by the distinguished Robert Anderson and staged by Tom Donovan. Supporting Miss Fontanne are Donald Madden, Cathleen Nesbitt, Rex O'Malley and Romney Brent. Lunt will narrate the play and will discuss the highlights of the dramatic presentations of the "Steel Hour" in its decade on the air.
The play, which is in the nature of a requiem to the "Steel Hour," should be one of the major television events of the year.
- The Los Angele Times (Los Angeles, California) Wednesday, June 12, 1963 on page 68.
There is a rather plaintive note in the mail from a fine young actor named Teno Pollick who gave one of the really marvelous performances of the season nine, an "Eleventh Hour" play called "The Seventh Day of Creation." Teno played the r******* son of Katy Jurado in the drama, which was one of the most moving shows in the psychiatric series and as fine a play as the series has offered.
Teno writes that the drama was originally shown against such formidable opposition that few member of the industry saw it. "It's the only TV show I've done, and I was hoping that people in the industry might see it on the rerun," he wrote. However, it is being rerun tonight (Channel 4 at 10) and this time its opposition is no less than Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne in the last of the "Steel Hour" plays. "Such," says Teno, "is life."
As deeply moving as was "The Seventh Day of Creation," it would be injudicious to tout the program over this rare television appearance of the Lunts, America's greatest acting team. The play is Sir James Barrie's "The Old Lady Shows Her Medals" with Miss Fontanne as the old charwoman, Mrs. Dowey, who pretends to have a son in the front lines of World War I. The play was adapted by the distinguished Robert Anderson and staged by Tom Donovan. Supporting Miss Fontanne are Donald Madden, Cathleen Nesbitt, Rex O'Malley and Romney Brent. Lunt will narrate the play and will discuss the highlights of the dramatic presentations of the "Steel Hour" in its decade on the air.
The play, which is in the nature of a requiem to the "Steel Hour," should be one of the major television events of the year.
- The Los Angele Times (Los Angeles, California) Wednesday, June 12, 1963 on page 68.
