Word: directors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...handsome woman of 47 who never wastes a word (or a dollar of production costs), Producer Crawford went from her native Akron to Smith College, and then straight to Broadway. She joined the Theatre Guild as a part-time secretary, worked her way up through odd jobs to casting director, quit in 1931 to become a founder and director of the fiery young Group Theatre, which launched Clifford Odets, Sidney Kingsley, William Saroyan, Elia Kazan, Robert Lewis, John Garfield...
...helped to nourish such noncommercial projects as the Experimental Theatre and the Actors' Studio, startled hard-shelled Broadway during the run of Brigadoon. With big profits in sight, she gave her cast of 62 what no performers expected from a producer: hospitalization insurance, free advanced acting lessons from Director Lee Strasberg, a week's vacation with...
...other: Theresa Helburn, longtime co-director of the Theatre Guild...
...like most genuinely successful enterprises, Sadler's Wells had a lot more than luck. It had a hard-driving director in Ninette de Valois, a graduate of Serge Diaghilev's great Ballet Russe. It had a corps de ballet drilled down to the last pas de chat, an ensemble built on the theory that it is as important to have a well-coordinated team as a great star. To put on the great "white ballets"-the classics that England's Royal Opera House company has made its specialty-it had to have both. Says U.S. Choreographer George...
...result, concluded Dr. Leonard W. Parkhurst, the clinic's medical director, many businessmen "need the advice of psychiatrists to convince them that they must ... be boss of their jobs, not slaves to those jobs." In one group of 63 tested at the clinic, 80% needed medical, surgical or psychiatric treatment. The clinic's time-honored prescription: take it easier...