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...that she was going shopping in Topeka). When the 53-year-old actor heard that he might be taken back to Kansas City for trial, he cried: "But I don't want to go to Kansas City. I've got a new show [Charleston, 1822, a Theatre Guild production] that must open on Thursday." Next day he was out on $2,500 bail, but would not open in the show. A Guild spokesman thought things were "too confused," and the Guild hired a replacement. Back in Salina, the girl was being packed off to a school for delinquents...
...Theatre Guild play of 1929, Man's Estate, which for a time paid them $1,000 a week; Bruce Gould was already working on Curtis Publishing Co.'s Saturday Evening Post when shrewd George Horace Lorimer sent the Goulds to the Journal in 1935. As Beatrice was bringing up their daughter Sesaly, she insisted on spending only three days a week at the office-and still does...
Even a "hit" musical can lose money. Last season's Allegro rolled up an impressive 315 performances but left the Theatre Guild short on an investment of some $300,000. Heaven on Earth is also in the $300,000 class, and still more costly projects lie ahead. Last week, perversely enough, Small Wonder, produced for $24,000 less than its low-budgeted $150,000, was the only new production that seemed to be catching...
...Long Island tied a white apron. Over his purple-edged skullcap he put a chef's white hat. In the spacious grounds of his cathedral at suburban Garden City, the bishop was chief cook (but not bottle-washer) at a clambake last week for the Episcopal Actors' Guild...
...Catholic Biblical Association's new translation of the Book of Genesis (St. Anthony Guild Press; $1) is the first part of a new translation of the Bible. For Catholics, it is quite daring. It is the first Catholic Bible in English to be drawn directly from the original languages rather than from the official Catholic text, the Latin Vulgate completed by St. Jerome in the year 405, and the first to use the "better understanding of Hebrew and of the science of textual criticism . . . since the time of St. Jerome." But the new text is accompanied by very conservative...