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...Leonard Bernstein), and Ian Keith. "Henry" runs through July 21, and on July 25 "The Beggar's Opera" opens, starring Shirley Jones of Rodgers & Hammerstein and Cinemascope fame. The final production of the summer will be Shaw's "Saint Joan," starring the Irish actress Siobhan McKenna, who won great acclaim in the role in Dublin and London a few seasons ago, and who made her American debut on Broadway this past season in "The Chalk Garden...
Woodworth's careful training and programming are certain to garner continued acclaim for the Harvard Glee Club on its second European tour...
...write about without digging up her own private garden. For me, it was just a routine relationship, and she's blown it up." Of the present "pretty bad" state of U.S. fiction, as exemplified by the "elevation" of Marjorie Morningstar, the bestseller by Herman Wouk, to its high acclaim as top-notch literature: "I have nothing against Mr. Wouk. It's simply the matter of him being built up because he shows respect to so-called hallowed institutions . . . Good novelists better leave the hallowing of sacred institutions to people who get paid to hallow them! Now take Norman...
...lecturer, whose works have received acclaim abroad, did painting and photography for the Farm Security Administration during the thirties and for the Office of War Information during World...
...when he debunked the "trash" written to explain why he turned traitor. Said he of one theory: "I haven't been uniformly successful in love, but I didn't get into espionage for that reason." Nor was it because of an inferiority complex or a desire for acclaim that he devoted eleven years to passing atomic secrets to the Russians. "Somewhere in me, through the years, I got a basic disrespect-it got so I thought I could ignore authority if I thought I was right. I was cocksure." With what seemed genuine remorse, Harry Gold summed...