Word: actresses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seems that whenever an actress can't get a job these days, she writes a play in which only she can star. "Dark Eyes," this week's offering at the Cambridge Summer Theatre is by several such actresses and concerns their escapades in trying to get their play produced. Originally produced on Broadway with the autsshors, Elena Miramova and Eugenie Leontovich, in the cast, the transition from the big time to straw hat seems to have taken its toll and proved one thing: that only Mirainova and Leontovich can star in this show...
Fuzzie Wuzzies Humphrey Bogart and Greer Garson, voted the best cinemactor and actress by General MacArthur's troops, got the first "Fuzzy Wuzzy" Oscars: effigies of Fiji Islanders mounted on fragments of Jap airplane metal...
...disintegration. With a hidden satisfaction she found herself watching the great fortunes crash in the Depression, was ashamed of herself for not feeling sorry. Presently she was no longer ashamed of herself. Running parallel with the story of Anne is the life of Lisa Blessing, a German actress who accepts the U.S. as Anne, in the end, accepts Nazi Germany...
Founded four years ago, the American Negro Theater wants, above all, to deal realistically with its race. "With few exceptions," it insists, "plays about Negroes have been two grades above the minstrel stage-the cork is missing, but the spirit is there." Many of the company, including Actress Simms, have been at universities but never on Broadway. Most of them are war workers who have kept the A.N.T. alive with a slice of their earnings. Last April, however, the Theater was saved from shoestringing along for a while by a $9,500 grant from the General Education Board...
...aiding the Underground. Errol Flynn carries of this part well and, with his customary savoir faire in matters feminine provides the romantic interest. For those who like expert acting. Paul Lukas gives his usual superb performance as an inspector for the Surote. Jean Sullivan a particularly pretty and capable actress by the simple country girl who regenerates Flynn and steels him for his sacrifice...