Word: director
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Letters of Gold. This week, on its 25th anniversary as a public institution, the Morgan Library, housed in a Renaissance-style mansion on Manhattan's East 36th Street, paid tribute to its first director. The staff had placed on exhibition some 256 items-the best of the treasures that Belle had bought before her retirement last December. There were the famous incunabula (the library has perhaps the best collection of these pre-16th Century books in the U.S.) and a 9th Century manuscript of the Four Gospels, written in letters of gold. The exhibition spanned centuries: notes Galileo jotted...
...Folger's players, who had to use the Folger's boiler room as overflow dressing quarters, were The Masquers of Amherst College, alma mater of the library's late founder, Oil Millionaire Henry Clay Folger. As a London director of 1600 would have it, they performed without sets, in frilly Elizabethan costumes instead of Roman togas. One non-authentic touch: girls were cast in the two feminine roles. The program explained: "We have somehow lost the knack of training juveniles to play female parts...
Though the play filled every seat at $2.40, the Folger's small capacity left it $1,500 short of expenses. But it was a critical hit in the Washington press and a hit for the new regime (nine months) of Library Director Dr. Louis B. Wright, 50, a go-getter with a passion for enlarging the Folger's usefulness. Said he: "I haven't the foggiest idea of sitting up with a corpse or running a mausoleum...
...Plays, Inc.; United Artists) is a full-length portrait of a middleweight heel. Based on a hard-bitten short story by the late Ring Lardner, it is a brilliant example of the kind of punch a mall studio can pack, if it has an intelligent script and a smart director. To get by the Johnston Office, Scripter "Carl Foreman made his hero, Midge Kelly Kirk Douglas), a shade gentler than Lardner's original. The movie Midge, for instance, does not paste his dear old mother in the jaw. Otherwise he is just about as unlovely a piece of humanity...
...like $600,000 (chicken feed for a modern A movie), they had made a picture which some experts guessed would gross $3,000,000. They had also delivered a stiff uppercut to Hollywood's heavyweights. Sam Goldwyn promptly bought up the talents of Champion's young (34) Director Mark Robson (who, like Douglas, will continue to do one picture a year for Screen Plays). Aggressive little Screen Plays' next: Home of the Brave, the first of the new Hollywood cycle on the Negro problem (TIME, March...