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...Boothe Luce, reasoning that if vacation-time fishing trips are good for Congressmen, a little summer-theater acting might be just the thing for a playwrighting (The Women) Congresswoman, wound up rehearsals for her on-stage debut this week-in the title role of George Bernard Shaw's Candida, at Stamford, Conn...
Although no schedule is definite, the Players plan to present "The Women" by Clare Boothe Luce, "Good Theatre" by Christopher Morley, Shakespeare's "Taming of the Shrew," and Shaw's "Candida" in the near future...
...latest vehicle presents a sophisticated quadrangular situation which is a sharp departure from her last three plays, "Candida," "The Doctor's Dilemma," and "The Three Sisters." These were all period pieces with some degree of the social significance from which Miss Cornell has determined to escape, at least temporarily. She believes that modern drama cannot do justice to a contemporary event of such significance as the present war while it is in the process of unfolding...
There is a story about H. G. Wells and Vegetarian Bernard Shaw. Said Wells: "I don't like to peach on a pal, but Shaw cheats." Woollcott "tried to imagine the author of Candida and Saint Joan giving way to beefsteaks as a solitary vice." "Yes," said Wells. "He takes liver extract and calls it 'those chemicals...
...widow, and the Iowa harnessmaker's son, a widower, got on famously. A few nights later they were dining together at a little restaurant on East 51st Street. They talked again about war work; they also began talking about themselves. They went together to see Katharine Cornell play Candida, to a party at the W. Averell Harrimans. By the time they were invited to a quiet dinner given by Lord and Lady Halifax for the departing Winston Churchill, they had decided to be married. The engagement was one of the secrets Winston Churchill -first person to know about...