Word: grahame
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with such notable starters, ticket buyers will have a choice of a second group of possible hits: All Summer Long, by Robert (Tea and Sympathy) Anderson, with John Kerr; Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, with Mendelssohn's music and Moira Shearer's dancing; Graham Greene's The Living Room; Lunatics and Lovers, a satire on sex plays, by Sidney (Dead End) Kingsley ; Portrait of a Lady, an adaptation of the Henry James novel, with Jennifer Jones; Truman Capote's musical, The House of Flowers, with Pearl Bailey; Sam & Bella Spewack...
...event because 1) the company was too broke to have costumes onade or scenery painted and had to go on with the girls wearing rehearsal tights and street sweaters and the men in dungarees; and 2) dance Americana had been done to death by Agnes de Mille (Rodeo), Martha Graham (Appalachian Spring), Eugene Loring (Billy the Kid), etc. Nevertheless, the new ballet survived handsomely. While Kay's orchestration produced some remarkable grunts and twangs, Balanchine's dancers were on their toes most of the time, doing high kicks and hoedowns evoking rather than describing romance and square dance...
...Evangelist Billy Graham, who was conducting a revival meeting in Nashville, came an urgent invitation from the Ministerial Alliance of Phenix City, Ala. Would Preacher Graham bring his crusade to Phenix City for a "sin-killing, old-time revival, reaching into every soul?" This, to many, was just what the doctor ordered, since Phenix City, once known as Sodom, was in the midst of a political upheaval following the murder of a candidate for attorney general and the revelation of a pack of other high crimes (TIME, June 28). But before Graham could reply, the answer came from a different...
British Novelist Graham (The Third Man) Greene, who is something of an internationalist Carry Nation out to smash the U.S.'s McCarran Act, stepped off a plane at San Juan airport, Puerto Rico and snapped a sharp yes when immigration officials asked the routine "have-you-ever-been-a-Communist?" question. Greene, who was en route to London from a vacation in Haiti, was politely detained overnight, next morning took off for Havana for a few days' nightclubbing and the chance to bemuse reporters with his story. The heart of the matter, explained famed Roman Catholic Convert Greene...
...buried with a state funeral. But the Roman Catholic Church denied her its rites. At 81, Novelist Colette-whose books were far from other-worldly-had been twice divorced, was long out of communion with the church. Last week, in the weekly Figaro Littéraire, British Novelist Graham (The End of the Affair) Greene, a Roman Catholic convert, took Paris' Cardinal Archbishop Feltin to task for his decision. Wrote Greene...