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Chief planner of the cultural export drive is the International Exchange Program of ANTA (American National Theater and Academy), a privately financed, nonprofit organization, which has been sending American artists abroad with its own funds since the late 1940s. Last August, Congress appropriated $5,000,000 for U.S. participation in foreign-trade fairs and cultural events, asked ANTA to be its contractor for talent, and set aside $2,250,000 for it to get the program rolling. ANTA utilizes panels of top critics to select its export talent (mostly big-name, to attract attention), depends on professional managers to supervise...
...first Western symphony orchestra to tour the Far East (sponsored by the U.S. State Department, ANTA and Japan's Mainichi newspapers), the Symphony of the Air packed Tokyo's 2,600-seat Hibiya Hall for the opening concert. Scalpers were collecting $22 for $5 tickets. Conductor Walter Hendl of the Dallas Symphony led a program of Berlioz, Gershwin, Richard Strauss and Brahms, got a six-minute ovation from an audience which included Crown Prince Akihito. Twenty-four hours before tickets went on sale for a special student concert, crowds began to line up at the box office...
Produced by ANTA's Gilbert Miller, with CARE as co-beneficiary, Album served up a two-hour, hot-to-cold potpourri of Broadway bits and pieces. Some of the players were topnotch: Helen Hayes in A Christmas Tie, Saroyan's one-act Omnibus comedy about a small-town lady crackpot; Ruth Draper's monologue about a Scottish immigrant at Ellis Island; Pianist-Comedian Victor Borge's skillfully timed spoofing of Mozart and Manhattan traffic ("Every empty taxi you see has somebody in it"); and Songstress Lena Home's high-tension version of The Lady...
With Stevens a member of the Playwrights Co. and Dowling also a power in ANTA (American National Theatre & Academy), all three members of Producers Theatre, Inc. stay close to Broadway. In its beehive offices on Times Square, a score of picked young actors meet thrice weekly to read and recite; from them, Producer Whitehead hopes to build up a topnotch repertory group. In Venice, P.T. is already filming The Time of the Cuckoo (star: Katharine Hepburn). But the triumvirate is just beginning to branch out. Tycoon Dowling hopes eventually to put actors, directors and playwrights on a salary status...
Desire Under the Elms (by Eugene O'Neill) opened a new season for the American National Theater & Academy. As a choice-on-paper, this major O'Neill effort is far happier than most of ANTA's previous offerings. As an actual stage piece, it leaves much to be desired under the elms. In it O'Neill boldly grappled with the most rooted intensities and twisted passions. But for all its insistent starkness, Desire lacks stature, and the ANTA production, by acting everything out in italics, tends to accentuate the play's shortcomings...