Word: actor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Going Places. At 29, little Nora Kaye is the closest thing ballet has to the theater's Tragedienne Judith Anderson. Her father, Gregory Koreff, onetime Moscow Art Theater actor, fascinated her as a child with his living-room characterizations ("in the Stanislavsky tradition") in the family's East Side apartment. But because her mother wanted her to dance, and because she liked dancing better than school, Nora headed for the Metropolitan...
Psychiatrics notwithstanding, most Viennese theatergoers took Harvey to their hearts as simply as a child takes his Easter bunny. Restaurant-keepers, says Vienna's Elwood Dowd (Actor Oscar Karlweis), are constantly thrusting gift packages at him. Most of them contain cabbage and carrots for the kindly rabbit who nightly helps his friend to find good in his fellow man. Even the Polish Minister seemed to have fallen sway to the rabbit's charm. At a dinner at the legation recently, he called Karlweis aside for a vodka. He poured out two glasses. "One for you," he told Vienna...
...British Actor-Playwright Robert Morley, who has picked up a few prizes in Manhattan for his biggest hit, Edward, My Son, had some thoughts as he prepared to return to London. He was "amazed" at the U.S. public's respect, "almost veneration," for English actors. "It's very lucky for us, of course," he conceded, "but it stultifies the American theater . . . You are always giving prizes and awards to English playwrights and players, a practice which in reverse would never be permitted in England...
Much of this is the work of Pierre Fresnay, who plays the title role with blazing honesty and humility. The part of a saint is patently not an easy one; in the hands of a lesser actor, "Monsieur Vincent" would have been hopelessly marred. The entire weight of the film rests on the central character, and Fresnay carries it with ease...
Died. Sir Seymour Hicks, 78, veteran British actor, author and dramatist; in Fleet, England. Sir Seymour (knighted by King George V in 1935) appeared in nearly 100 plays (he helped write 64 plays, authored eleven books), was the first Briton to take a theatrical troupe to the front lines in France during World...