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Orpheus Descending is a rewrite by Tennessee Williams of a Williams play, Battle of Angels, that headed for Broadway in 1940 but folded in Boston. A certain sense of remodeling, of altered stairs and corridors, of trapdoors inserted and windows removed, hangs over the play. But the builder's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play, Old Play | 4/1/1957 | See Source »

Whatever her predicament or hairdo, Actress Russell remains the triumphant embodiment of festive pandemonium and soignee wackiness. Hers is a delightful twining of farceuse and comedienne: she can give a drawing-room inflection to a loony-bin situation, or turn daffy or profane in the midst of playing a grande...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Nov. 12, 1956 | 11/12/1956 | See Source »

Minstreling through Dixie, Dreamboat Groaner Elvis ("The Pelvis") Presley proved that in the rock-'n'-roll business it helps to be daffy. In Charlotte, N.C. he deeply impressed the local Observer's observer: "Presley burst onto the stage, staggering and flailing like a moth caught in a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jul. 9, 1956 | 7/9/1956 | See Source »

(Thurs. 10 p.m., CBS). The daffy Dane's one-man Broadway show reaches TV.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: Program Preview, Jun. 18, 1956 | 6/18/1956 | See Source »

The week's drama was partially redeemed by CBS's Best of Broadway, which revived George Kelly's 1924 Broadway hit, The Show-Off, as a starring vehicle for Comedian Jackie Gleason. As Aubrey Piper, a vainglorious blowhard who enchants his wife but drives her family daffy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Week in Review | 2/14/1955 | See Source »

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