Word: director
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Leaves Canceled. In Buffalo, N.Y., U.S.O. Director Mrs. Odessa Shipley thought she knew just how to entertain 230 visiting British sailors from H.M.S. Scarborough, was terribly surprised when 1,000 tea bags went untouched...
...other planes, likewise loaded with scientists, students, and photographers, left Logan Airport around 6 a.m. The University group flew in a DC-6 provided by Northeast Airlines; Dean Bundy, Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, head of the Department of Astronomy and Donald H. Menzel, Director of the University Observatory, headed the Harvard contingent in its expedition upward...
Richard E. Pipes, Associate Director of the Russian Research Center, commented last night that the Soviet inaction is "not fatal" to the success of negotiations. He and other officials of the Center felt that some definite arrangement will be produced in the next few months...
...seasons ago, an unknown author named William Gibson, an unknown actress named Anne Bancroft, a television producer named Fred Coe and a director named Arthur Penn reached Broadway with a two-character play, Two for the Seesaw. It was such a solid hit that it is still running today. This team's second effort, The Miracle Worker, came to the Wilbur Theatre in Boston Tuesday night. It is a gripping, magnificently performed piece of stagecraft, and it should have no difficulty in duplicating and surpassing the success of Seesaw...
Gibson is extraordinarily lucky to have the assistance of Penn as director and of Patty Duke in the role of Helen. Since Helen cannot speak, her every movement must convey something to the audience; Helen cannot be played as a mere dumb animal, for the entire play is meant to prove that there is something inside her, waiting to be released. Under Penn's direction, Miss Duke is more than a success in this awfully taxing part; without ever uttering a word, she is the most memorable child actress to appear in years...