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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Proceeding, perhaps, on the tenable theory that what they had in hand was a revival of O'Casey's play with occasional interpolated musical numbers, the producers engaged Melvyn Douglas and Shirley Booth to play Captain and Mrs. Boyle. Nothing in their performances compensates for their egregious violation of the...

Author: By Julius Novick, | Title: Juno | 2/9/1959 | See Source »

In Switzerland's 22 cantons last week, this bulwark of the Swiss way of life was meeting its supreme test: the first nationwide referendum on whether women should vote. Typically, the campaigning -both pro and con-was conducted with sobriety, even with somnolence. No suffragettes surged in milling thousands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SWITZERLAND: Women Without the Vote | 2/9/1959 | See Source »

Boisson was not the only civil functionary to get the boot last week. In a surprise morning broadcast to his people, sandwiched in between the commercials and the canned music on Radio Monte Carlo, Prince Rainier III "temporarily" suspended Monaco's constitution and fired both the 18-man National...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MONACO: Aux Armes, Citoyens! | 2/9/1959 | See Source »

As both playwright and director of The Possessed, Camus combined his evolving philosophy with his considerable theatrical skill. To handle the novel's bewildering rush toward chaos, Camus uses an onstage narrator who streamlines the transition between scenes (some take only eight seconds). The play roils with the deluded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THEATER ABROAD: Dostoevsky via Camus | 2/9/1959 | See Source »

To "the man of distinction" and ''the thinking man," U.S. TViewers last week could add a brand-new advertising character: "the Massey-Ferguson kind of a man." As the first farm-equipment manufacturer to launch a network TV campaign, Toronto's Massey-Ferguson Ltd.. the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: The Get-Up-Early Man | 2/9/1959 | See Source »

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