Word: actresses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With half an hour to go one evening during her vigorous portrayal of Joan of Arc in The Lark, Broadway's Actress Julie Harris (TIME, Nov. 28) threw herself into an all-too-real fall onstage, split her lip in sideswiping a footstool. The curtain was rung down for ten minutes, while three doctors recruited from the audience made temporary repairs on Julie. Then, amidst bravos, she finished the play. After that, Julie had eight stitches made in her lip, was almost as good as new at next day's matinee...
Married. Nancy Kelly, 34, actress of stage (The Bad Seed) and screen; and Warren Caro, 48, Theatre Guild executive; she for the third, he for the second time; in Manhattan...
...true love (she has to pay back some $11,-ooo her ever-loving daddy embezzled), helping a Polish immigrant to learn English and grow up to write bad plays, rescuing the underprivileged boy from across the tracks, and airily saving the town bank from failing during the Depression. Actress Jones seems to have a fine time portraying the exemplar of all the virtues. However, the town's citizens, all of whom seem to have been in her classroom at one time or another, are a bad argument for her teaching methods. Their jaws drop with astonishment whenever she uses...
...captivates all Paris, though, with his operettas. Unhappily for Paris the source of Offenbach's inspiration becomes his leading actress, Hortense Schneider. And Hortense, a broad minded girls, finds emperors and generals as attractive as composers, and inspiration fails Offenbach. He then writes an operetta satirizing the vagaries of wandering Hortense; and the operetta, La Belle Helene, is a grand success. Offenbach is content. Hortense is content. Paris is content...
Julie nevertheless has the vices of her virtues, and she knows it. "An actress," she says, "needs all the emotionality she can get." And Julie, though she has plenty of a high and special kind, has less of the more everyday varieties. "What she needs now, if she is going to grow," a friend says, "is to have a woman's life, and to suffer a woman's portion, and to wait for a woman's strength to come to her out of the dark." Director Clurman agrees: 'Julie hasn't developed what I call...