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...show was put on by the enterprising Guild of British Creative Designers, an association of twelve wholesale gown manufacturers, which has its eye on postwar trade, would like to grab some Parisian prestige. But for the uniformed and utility-clothed British girl the show was a frustration. The Board of Trade does not yet permit, for domestic use, such luxury items as were shown last week. All 48 of the models displayed were earmarked: Down Under-for export to Australia...
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...
...irreconcilable differences had been there all along-but there had once been reasons for reconciling them. In 1936, Hearst's P-I had been shut down by a costly 15-week American Newspaper Guild strike, and was in bad odor with the New Dealing, labor-loving seaport of Seattle...
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...