Word: actresses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...night crowds stormed the box office of West Berlin's Renaissance Theater without success: the four-week limited engagement of Jerome Kilty's Dear Liar had been sold out overnight. Based on the series of "wicked, wicked letters" that George Bernard Shaw exchanged over the years with Actress Stella (Mrs. Patrick) Campbell, the play crackled with the thrust and parry of Shavian wit neatly done in German. But for once G.B.S. himself was being upstaged by an even more powerful drawing card: famed Viennese Actress Elisabeth Bergner, 59, emerging from semiretirement to score the triumph of her career...
More recitation than straight drama, Dear Liar (first presented last spring in a U.S. tour by Katharine Cornell and Brian Aherne-TIME, April 27*) provides Actress Bergner with the kind of virtuoso acting opportunities she needs. With top-notch support from German Actor Otto Hasse as Shaw, Bergner limns the famous affair-by-letter, beginning in 1912, when Actress Campbell, at the height of her fame and beauty, was writing to her "Joey the Clown" about appearing in his Pygmalion, through the declining days in Hollywood (where Stella was like "some sinking frigate firing broadside after broadside at anyone...
Appearing successively in three filmy, billowy gowns, Actress Bergner played on her audience with the familiar, huskily resonant voice (she practiced in her hotel room, crying sharp, staccato "ha, ha, ha's" up and down the scale), the erectly graceful carriage, the suddenly confiding smile. In stunned silence, the audience watched her run the gamut from regal pride to jaded irony to a kind of enervated despair. Said a damp-eyed Bergner in her dressing room afterward: "Most of the generation who used to know me are dead or disappeared. It's so terribly touching...
...third time since early last year, Actress Sarah Churchill, 44, was hauled in by the law for public drunkenness. This time, in London, she got off with a $5.60 fine, after a constable testified that Sir Winston's daughter "appeared to be trying to hold a sort of political meeting" all by herself in a local snack...
Landing in Miami after a voodoo-drummed idyl in Haiti with Omaha Dentist Miles Graham (real name: Marlon Brando), sultry Eurasian student Timy Van Nga (real identity: Actress France Nuyen) lost her temper at the airport when lensmen tried to snap the ill-disguised lovebirds (TIME, Sept. 28). After conking a photographer with her purse and punching his face, France abandoned the precarious world of Timy Van Nga to return to Broadway and her title role in The World of Suzie Wong...