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...this season: Under the Yum-Yum Tree, The Pleasure of His Company, etc.). But he has also mixed in Wilde, Williams, Sherwood, and Giraudoux, giving the Kennebunkport Playhouse a high reputation among actors, critics, and the sober side of his audiences. Performers are fond of returning there, including Tallulah Bankhead, Henry Morgan, Russell Nype, and Currier's own sister, Singer Jane Morgan...
...Student Council came out against goalpost rioting while the Faculty concerned itself with abolishing the elementary language requirement. This was the year when Tallulah Bankhead told the CRIMSON that drama must never be censored, and the spring when it was discovered that Harvard University was left without a single dean or executive above the rank of secretary to the President for one entire weekend...
Midgie Purvis (by Mary Chase) presents Tallulah Bankhead as an oddball society matron who masquerades as a very old lady. Young-hearted Midgie Purvis has long embarrassed her family as a kind of card-of-all-work, and when her son begs that she meet his fiancee and her family in decorous matronly style, she decamps instead. Taking rooms behind a candy store, she turns into a frowsy, fumbly baby sitter who suddenly goes on the loose with her three young charges, causing nocturnal havoc as she careens about and more havoc when it comes...
...also, of course, a gamely resourceful Tallulah, now Charlestoning, now sliding down banisters and firemen's poles, now swinging far out across the stage, or making utterance in her best Bankhead baritone, or looking for just a second like grandmother turning into the wolf. But for all that, granny's not up to a whole evening, while Midgie Purvis is scarcely alive for half...
Group II. Into this unpromising assemblage-thanks in part to the presence of ill-starred Star Tallulah Bankhead and Co-Producer Roger Stevens-falls Midgie Purvis, a comedy by Mary (Harvey) Chase. Similarly tainted: Rhinoceros, which combines previously unsuccessful Producer Leo Kerz and unpredictable (three for seven) Director Joseph Anthony with an unknown commercial quantity, Playwright Eugene Ionesco...