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With the announcement of the Shaw presentation, the Workshop started immediately a city-wide search for a suitable actress to portray Jean. Elizabeth Bergner, currently appearing in the Boston production of "Miss Julie," has been invited to witness casting tryouts in Sanders, Friday and Saturday afternoons, from 1 to 5 o'clock. Miss Bergner played the title role in the German production of "Saint Joan...
...with Poet Auden's cuts* the play had, perhaps, to be slow of pace. But it did not have to be so barren of atmosphere or thin of texture. Nor need it have been acted, and frequently overacted, in so many manners with so little style. Only Elisabeth Bergner as the Duchess played with anything like stature. Passable in an important role, and using whiteface, was Negro Actor Canada...
Canada Lee, Negro pugilist-turned-actor, got into a wig and grease paint in Boston and made a little modern theatrical history by playing a white man's role opposite Star Elisabeth Bergner in The Duchess of Malfi. Critics' judgment: a success. In Wilmington, Del., history repeated itself: a theater manager disavowed racial prejudice but canceled The Duchess' engagement...
...Stolen Life (Warner). "Man needs woman. Woman needs man. That's basic." This bit of twaddle is about the most intellectual statement in this sentimental restatement of Elizabeth Bergner's 1939 film of the same name...
...Without Bergner, this play is nothing more than a well produced terror show made from an often-used blueprint. With Bergner, "The Two Mrs. Carrolls" is transformed into one of the most enjoyable pieces of serious drama of the season...