Word: guilds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Curious Savage (by John Patrick; produced by the Theatre Guild & Russell Lewis & Howard Young) tackles a tempting and dangerous theme. The scene is an elegant mental institution, the story chiefly about an eccentric rich widow (amusingly played by Lillian Gish) whose stepchildren want to keep her from disposing capriciously of their father's fortune. Before being confined, she has contrived to hide the money; and the play proceeds at several interrogatory levels: 1) a farcical one of Where Is the Fortune?; 2) a psychological one of How Mad Is the Lady?; 3) a philosophical one of Is Sanity...
...Theatre Guild on the Air (Sun. 8:30 p.m., NBC). Alice Adams, with Judy Garland...
...belles and sleighbells. None of these trappings quite disguises the fact that Hero Ludar is as dim as a 50-year-old memory and that Son of a Hundred Kings offers, after all, a pretty flat solution of the mystery of Ludar's parentage. A lot of Literary Guild members will be praying for Costain to get back to cloaks & daggers...
...Harold Dietrich, 50-year-old assistant news editor of the Sun-Telegraph, decided he would rather put out a newspaper. With the sponsorship of Pittsburgh's C.I.O. Newspaper Guild and craft unions, he turned a three-room downtown office into a newsroom and recruited some 20 furloughed newsmen to cover their old beats. This week, on the 14th day of the strike, Dietrich's crew ended Pittsburgh's news famine by turning out an eight-page, regular-sized daily, the Pittsburgh Daily Reporter, printed at the plant of labor-paper-publishing Western Newspaper Union. The Reporter...
...Theatre Guild on the Air (Sun. 8:30 p.m., NBC). Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms, with Joan Fontaine and Humphrey Bogart...