Word: actresses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lady was an American: blonde, Syracuse-born Claire Luce.† The choice was a deliberate one, by way of saying thank you for U.S. support of last year's Festival, with its record-breaking attendance of 230,000. Besides playing Beatrice in the opening Much Ado About Nothing, Actress Luce will appear in Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer, play Cleopatra in the birthday performance (April 23) of Antony & Cleopatra...
...impervious sincerity Actress Cornell remains untouched by this fustian, makes Elizabeth Barrett not only a very appealing heroine but a conceivable human being...
...Actress Taylor's devices are those of a superb performer: with mumbled words, fluttery gestures, unpredictable movements, small changes of pace and stress, she bit by bit reveals what she is, was, thinks she was, pretends to be, vaguely dreams of yet becoming...
Lady in Retirement. Perhaps Broadway's most gifted actress, Laurette Taylor has appeared there only once before (in a revival of Outward Bound) during the last thirteen years. In the popular mind, indeed, her name is entirely linked with a play she starred in 33 years ago-Peg o' My Heart. Actress Taylor played Peg (the work of her husband, prolific Playwright J. Hartley Manners) 600 times on Broadway, 500 in London, then another 500 in Manhattan. To her it was "the worst play that Hartley ever wrote. It was written too much for me. I had everything...
Crushed by Manners' death in 1928, Laurette Taylor threw over the theater and "went on what, I suppose, was the longest wake in history." When the wake ended, Actress Taylor (who is 61) was well on in middle age, very choosy-and good roles for her did not grow on trees. Says she: "It was either acting old mountaineer crones who spit tobacco juice in their son's eye-or Ibsen. I couldn't chew tobacco and I wouldn't be found dead in A Doll's House...