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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Theresa Helburn, directress of the Theatre Guild, copped an honorary Master's degree from Tufts. Other kudos-collectors: Secretary of State Stettinius, Doctor of Laws (Columbia); Georgia's Senator Walter F. George, Doctor of Laws (Columbia...
Carousel (music by Richard Rodgers; book & lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II; produced by the Theatre Guild). All Oklahoma's horses and all Oklahoma's men have put another charmer together again. But Oklahoma's and Carousel's Composer Rodgers, Librettist Hammerstein, Choreographer Agnes de Mille, Director Rouben Mamoulian, Costume Designer Miles White have not repeated themselves. Carousel strays pretty far from Oklahoma!, just as it shies completely away from Broadway. A reworking of Ferenc Molnar's Liliom, it is not a musicomedy but a lovely and appealing "musical play...
...Glass Menagerie is 31-year-old Playwright Williams' first Broadway production. But he has written eight other plays, including Battle of Angels, which the Theater Guild closed out of town four years ago, and You Touched Me, which Guthrie McClintic plans to bring to Broadway this fall. Though delighted by the award, Williams demurred: "I think The Deep Mrs. Sykes should have gotten the prize." He also doubted whether "the critics will like my future plays as much as this one. In this play I said all the nice things I have to say about people. The future things...
...Carousel," the Theater Guild's latest attempt to copy former success "Oklahoma," specializes in top notch Agnes DeMille dance routines, overflows with passable Richard Rodgers music, and totters on the lyrics of Oscar Hammerstein 2nd and the plot from Ferenc Molnar's "Liliom...
...cherubic, inexhaustible Dr. Clarence Dickinson, 71, director of the School of Sacred Music at Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary. He has written or arranged some 500 anthems and chorales, edits the standard Presbyterian Hymnal, has trained some 300 U.S. church music directors. Now, as chairman of the American Guild of Organists' service committee, he spends his spare time telling organists how to needle the clergy into planning services with good music instead of merely "decorating" them with "soul-saving hymns." Dr. Dickinson pours most of his philosophy into one anecdote: "Once I heard a preacher sermonize on Launch...