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...Gallic productions, revealed Director-Actor-Pantomimist Barrault as one of the theater's most agile minds and bodies. Last week, again brought over by Impresario Sol Hurok, the Barrault troupe again promised a menu of both classics (Molière, Lope de Vega, Ben Jonson) and moderns (Salacrou, Giraudoux...
...Allies were delighted. Here was a Socialist who had strongly supported EDC, staunchly resisted popular-front talk, and was given to saying things like "The American people must know that we love them." The son of an army officer and stepson of playwright Jean (The Madwoman of Chaillot] Giraudoux, Pineau had jumped from a promising banking career into the Socialist labor movement after the Bank of France fired him for trying to unionize its employees. With the fall of France in 1940, this soft-looking ex-banker became one of the organizers of the resistance. Twice arrested by the Gestapo...
Most works with any real distinction possessed foreign blood. The season's most creative new play was British Writer Enid Bagnold's witty, elegantly savage The Chalk Garden. Even more finely tempered was Tiger at the Gates, Jean Giraudoux's humanely ironic lament for the Trojan and all subsequent wars. Audiences might argue whether Samuel Beckett's puzzling, plotless Waiting for Godot was profound art or a mere philosophic quiz show; less arguable was the neatness of its writing, the desolation of its mood. In Lillian Hellman's sharp adaptation, Jean Anouilh...
...France, Mollet settled on a Cabinet, giving Mendès the job of Deputy Premier without portfolio (instead of Foreign Minister, which Mendes desired). For Foreign Minister he reached instead into his own party for Good European Christian Pineau. 51, stepson of Playwright Jean (The Madwoman of Chaillot) Giraudoux and himself an author of children's fairy stories. Mollet spurned the Communist support proffered ("Let no one think that I'm the man to prepare the future of Popular Front . . . I will never lead my party to suicide"), but seemed fated to get it anyway. Ultimately, said Communist...
...best Broadway season in years-with Shakespeare. Marlowe, Giraudoux, Anouilh and Wilder on the boards; with Julie Harris, Shirley Booth, Ruth Gordon, Shelley Winters, Nancy Walker, Gwen Verdon on the scene; and more hits around than theaters to hold them-one of the most dazzling events is the performance in The Diary of Anne Frank of 17-year-old Susan Strasberg (TIME, Oct. 17). Susan got an actress's recognition last week when her name went up in lights a foot high above the title of the show, and she became the youngest dramatic star ever to shine...