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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Levy will handle casting operations for future productions by the Workshop. Characters in tonight's drama include Algy, Lady Bracknell, Cecily, Gwen, Jack, and Dr. Chasuble. Besides acting parts, tryouts will also be held for writing and adapting scripts...
After three months at Kansas City's Sanford B. Ladd School, 29-year-old Gwen Eades found U.S. youngsters "very much like English children," but not as far along as children the same age she knew at London's Southfield Road Infants' School. There the kids start school at three, begin to read at five-some two years earlier than...
Many of the paintings looked as though they had faded in the sun; the colors were so faint that it required close examination to detect where a pink ended and a blue began. Another unusual feature of Gwen John's painting was the number of studies she made of her subjects from the rear. She sketched a good deal in church, using women at prayer for models...
Born in Pembrokeshire, Wales (in 1876), Gwen John preferred Paris. There she divided her life between painting in her monastic quarters and praying in a Roman Catholic chapel around the corner. Poet Rainer Maria Rilke lent her books now & then, and she corresponded with "Dear Master" Neo-Thomist Jacques Maritain, but her only constant company was cats. She was careful to remember the cats in her will...
...tells it in terms of the present, when small towns lie chockablock with army camps, and harum-scarum, boy-crazy young things, talking weird slang in whiny voices, give high-school seniors the go-by and dashing privates the come-on. One night, while her parents are out, Janie (Gwen Anderson) throws a small party for the military, which by midnight achieves riotous and regimental proportions. Coca-Cola gives way to Scotch, soldiers get locked in bathrooms, jeeps get stalled on the lawn, neighbors scream for the police, and the family unseasonably returns. By 2 a.m., however, everything...