Word: actresses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...aren't slant-eyed and flat-chested," said one young unemployed actress last week, "you haven't a prayer of getting a job." Cause of her complaint: Broadway is going heavily Oriental this season. The World of Suzie Wong (see THEATER) is only the first of a Far East catalogue that includes such forthcoming items as Flower Drum Song, Rashomon, Kataki, Cry for Happy and the umpteenth revival of The Shanghai Gesture. Even the small, off-Broadway houses are braced for the Oriental invasion, with three versions of classic Japanese No drama...
...Receiving sizable royalties from Western publishers, he traveled to West Germany and Italy in a beat uniform of blue jeans and cowboy shirt, boasted that he had run through $4,000 in just a few weeks of high living on the Riviera. He reportedly fell in love with German Actress Sonia Ziemann, who had starred in the movie version of The Eighth Day of the Week...
...book by Walter and Jean Kerr; music by Leroy Anderson; lyrics by the Kerrs and Joan Ford) takes place in 1913, in pioneer cinema days when redskins were swarming all over Fort Lee. The show itself concerns a short-on-cash, long-on-ego moviemaker and a sizzling-tongued actress he corrals for shotgun movie heroics on the eve of her society marriage. Communicating by insult, the two keep throwing knives at each other without for a long time realizing that they are actually Cupid's darts...
Tales and Last Tales (TIME, Nov. 4). In Babette's Feast, a French cook wins a small fortune in a lottery and spends every penny of it showing her staid, stingy Norse employers what a real meal can be. In Tempests, the actress who is to play Ariel in The Tempest gets caught in a real storm at sea and becomes a heroine by behaving as Shakespeare has taught her to behave...
...Even when not made up in clown-white, it is a clown-face. It seems to be changing, frowning, smiling, always with one eye on the reaction of its audience--perhaps this is the essential quality of the clown-face--but this becomes an attribute not only of the actress but of the character. She spends most of her time undergoing highly repetitive insults and injuries from her master, and only the uniquiness of Masina keeps the character's helplessness from becoming less pathetic than annoying...