Word: actresses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Morning Star (by Emlyn Williams; produced by Guthrie McClintic) augurs well: it provides a talented playwright with a timely theme. But in spite of a smooth production topped by deft, middle-aged English Actress Gladys Cooper, it works out badly: the author of The Corn is Green won't respect his material, can't resist shooting the works. Dealing with an upper middle-class London household during the blitz, The Morning Star is so rammed with happenings-deaths, births, accidents, war news, medical discoveries, rooms to let, illicit love affairs-that after a while the play...
...months ago, Spaniards reported with bitter humor, Serrano had presented his wife with a social disease. His name was linked in Madrid café jingles to at least three women: the wife of a South American diplomat, the sister of a Spanish writer and a comely actress...
...first man to produce Ibsen's plays in the U.S., fought the Klaw & Erlanger "Theatrical Trust" which controlled nearly every U.S. theater in the '90s. Once Fiske trouped through Texas "under canvas"-because the trust refused him their theaters. He married the late, great Actress Minnie Maddern in 1890, became her manager, starred her in Ghosts, A Doll's House, Tess of the D'Urbervilles, finally helped break the monopoly. His most popular success: Kismet, starring Otis Skinner. A critic once wrote: "Fiske in the '90s was probably the only manager in the American theater...
Married. Leonora Corbett, 34, British actress, willowy ghost of Noel Coward's Blithe Spirit; and John Francis Royal, 56, NBC's burly, explosive vice president in charge of international broadcasting; she for the first time, he for the second (his first wife died in January); in Manhattan. She came here from England after nearly a year of driving a mobile canteen through bombed areas, scored a personal triumph in her first U.S. appearance. Her make-up in Blithe Spirit: dead grey, from head to foot...
...mannerisms that are required to bring such a role to life, and his performance is one that should not be missed. He is best supported by his daughter, Paula, and by Nancy Duncan, who play his grand-daughter and daughter respectively. Nancy Duncan again shows her versatility as an actress in the role of the truly bird-brained awkward ballerina. These three carry the performance with the able help of Jacqueline DeSuz in the tiny role of a drunken actress. The rest of the cast lacks the precision which such comedies require and as a result there are moments when...