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...production helps considerably. Harold Clurman's staging is lively, yet never sacrifices tone to trickiness. As Berenice, Ethel Waters plays with sure and simple dignity; as John Henry, seven-year-old Brandon De Wilde is thoroughly captivating. In the much more difficult role of Frankie, Julie Harris is very effective up to a point. Yet she is never really moving, never conveys something inward that cannot be put into words...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play in Manhattan, Jan. 16, 1950 | 1/16/1950 | See Source »

...present production is under a new producer and director, Guthric McClintic, and we have him to thank for many of the improvements. The part of Jason, played by Henry Brandon is better handled, though still undefined. The chorus of three Corinthian women has happily not been recruited from the ranks of the subway money-changers, as seemed to be the case in the earlier production. Gone is their folksy quality perhaps, but the dialogue has benefited. On the debit side, there are two actors playing Creon and Aegeus who either have dental difficulties or misapplied crepe beards. Much of what...

Author: By George A. Leiper, | Title: The Playgoer | 4/16/1949 | See Source »

...greatest show animal ever bred, but as a dairy bull he has had few equals. In 13 years, hefty, mahogany-and-white Netherhall Swanky Dan, an Ayrshire bred in Scotland, had lumbered into 84 show rings, had won the championship every time. At the Ayrshire Breeders Association in Brandon, Vt, a file of cards, with 200 names was needed to register his offspring, valued at some $200,000. One of his offspring, Cavalier's Swanky Hughina, set a formidable record for Ayrshires by producing 18,817 Ibs. of milk and 656 Ibs. of butterfat in a year. Two others...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGRICULTURE: The Champ | 11/22/1948 | See Source »

...SHIRLEY BRANDON...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 27, 1948 | 9/27/1948 | See Source »

Married. Whitelaw Reid, 34, vice president and third-generation editor of the family-owned New York Herald Tribune; and Joan Brandon, 18, Barnard College student, daughter of the Tribune's youth page editor; in Purchase...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Aug. 2, 1948 | 8/2/1948 | See Source »

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