Word: bainter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Admirable Crichton was revived last week with capable Walter Hampden as the cosmic butler, childlike and charming Fay Bainter as Lady Mary Lasenby. The opening was fresh and amusing with a message from Playwright Sir James Barrie read by William Gillette (first Crichton in the U. S.). But modern spectators, accustomed to tight playwrighting, could not help feeling that Acts II and IV are, while pleasant, structurally useless...
LYSISTRATA?Aristophanes' satirical suggestion that the way to stop war is to sex-starve the soldiery. Fay Bainter and Ernest Truex the opposite sides of the argument (TIME...
...temporarily 90 mi. southwest. The Philadelphia Theatre Association produced Aristophanes' The Lysistrata in a manner which, as the news spread, drew pilgrims and pundits from miles around. The news said that Norman Bel Geddes had designed the set; that Gilbert Vivian Seldes had adapted the script; that Fay Bainter and Ernest Truex were in the cast; that nothing so racy, so robust, so surprising had happened for years, nor often since The Lysistrata had its premiere in Athens, 2,341 years...
Lysistrata (Fay Bainter), disgusted by 20 years of war between Athens and the cities of Sparta, Thebes and Corinth, summoned the women of these towns to meet her in Mr. Bel Geddes' rich-hued, towering Acropolis. The older women arrived first, overpowered the guards, seized the citadel and the treasury. Somewhat tardily, the sleepy-eyed belles of Athens appeared, followed by big-boned Spartan women, country girls from Thebes, light ladies from Corinth. Taken aback were they when Lysistrata proposed to end the war by pledging each woman to deny herself to husband or lover until peace should...