Word: floras
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...matter of fact, it's difficult to see how they could have packed any more flora and fauna in one picture. With natives seven feet tall, and stampeding herds of zebra and gnu, the show is bound to be of more than passing interest...
...Deserts which gradually, through millions of years, acquired flora and fauna...
Black Chiffon (by Lesley Storm; produced by John Wildberg) refers to the nightgown that matronly, well-to-do Alicia Christie (Flora Robson) shoplifted off a counter. She had gone out to shop for a dinner party in honor of her son's marriage and she came home facing trial for theft. The rest of the play searches out, with a psychiatrist's help, her motive for so strange an act, and then ponders whether she can use the motive for her defense. She finds that, just as her husband has always jealously resented her being so close...
...Flora Robson acts the harassed Mrs. Christie with quiet authority and a complete absence of tricks, and Anthony Ireland and Raymond Huntley do well as psychiatrist and husband. A play so full of shocks and dilemmas naturally has its moments. What seems odd is that there aren't more of them...
...Streetcar Named Desire) Williams' The Rose Tattoo on her schedule. By the time the season is half over, Broadway will probably be seeing Hollywood's Louis Calhern (in King Lear) and Olivia de Havilland (in Romeo and Juliet), besides such stage faithfuls as Dame Edith Evans, Flora Robson, Jessica Tandy, Lilli Palmer, and possibly Tallulah Bankhead...