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Thieves' Carnival by Jean Anouilh is Lyric Productions' first offering. The place is Fine Arts Theatre, Norway Street, rather off-beat and unquestionably off-Broadway. At 8:40 p.m. tonight...
Another disappointing performance is contributed by Susan Strasberg. Although the young actress is in the process of winning a large reputation for her work on Broadway, in the film she manages to do little more than sulk when she is called upon to portray a rather unattractive adolescent. Kim Novak's characterization as the girl who breaks her engagement has a somewhat greater depth and even a few touching moments. Yet her acting still does not match that of Rosalind Russel, who plays the part of a lonely schoolteacher. She appears both funny and pathetic when she all but swindles...
Anderson is the author of "Tea and Sympathy," and Oenslager designed sets for the current Broadway play "Janus...
Robert W. Anderson '39, author of "Tea and Sympathy" and other Broadway plays, and Donald M. Oenslager '23, stage designer for such productions as "Anything Goes" and "Sabrina Fair," will discuss the Conference's topic, "Theatre." Garson Kanin, director of "The Diary of Anne Frank," will also speak...
...shows on Broadway, 17 are playing in Shubert-operated theaters. The Shubert chain not only controls more than half of New York's legitimate stages, but six of Boston's seven, four of Philadelphia's five, six of Chicago's seven, two of Cincinnati's three, the one house in Baltimore and the two in Detroit. Shubert also owns 50% of the United Booking Office, the only agency through which producers can arrange nationwide tours. Last week, in the final act of a six-year-long Government antitrust suit (during which Lee Shubert died), Jake...