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Maryland was the winner of the meet, followed by Villanova, Seton Hall, Northeastern, Pennsylvania, Army, and Fairleigh-Dickinson...
Married. Julie Harris, 51, touring as the reclusive Emily Dickinson in The Belle of Amherst; and Walter Erwin Carroll, 54, an occasional playwright and a friend of Harris' for 30 years; both for the third time; in Sterling, Va. When nominated for the third of her four Tony Awards, Harris said to an interviewer: "If I had to do it again, I would like to have met a man and just been his helpmeet and nothing else...
...form in recent years, and no performer has mastered the genre more completely than James Whitmore. Although Hal Holbrook displayed a keener sense of comic timing in his uproarious portrayal of Samuel Clemens in Mark Twain Tonight, and Julie Harris added a depth of psychological feeling to her Emily Dickinson that Whitmore falls just short of attaining, no one has demonstrated the versatile range and consistent excellence of Whitmore in this type of theater...
...only theater offering at Harvard this week is an adaptation along the lines of The Belle of Amherst, Julie Harris' recent critically acclaimed adaptation of Emily Dickinson's poems. In a one woman show, Margaret Wolfit, a British actress, conjures up the characters in George Eliot's The Mill on the Floss, focusing on the intelligent woman's predicament in Victorian society. Performances are tonight, Friday and Saturday at 8 pm on the Loeb Mainstage. Tickets...
Emlyn Williams's one-man show, Dylan Thomas Growing Up, similarly impresses me as a collection of voices--all creations of Williams's own hypnotic baritone. In contrast to The Belle of Amherst, Julie Harris's recent tour-de-force portrayal of Emily Dickinson, Williams has steered away from constructing a coherent dramatic whole, embracing a well-developed set of invisible characters, a climax and a denouement. Instead, he uses only a loose chronological organization, modeling his entertainment after Thomas's own prose, with its fluid structure and its lack of a clear beginning, middle...