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...relatively easy to judge productions of The Heiress, for in the play itself the last scene serves as an infallible barometer. When Catherine, the plain, painfully shy heiress, decides at last between marriage and spinsterhood, the audience must be completely braced for her decision; they must feel an unusual emotion compounded of pity, irony, disappointment, and pride. Because the actors in Idler's production of The Heiress convey all this and more, the performance is a definite success...

Author: By Arthur J. Langguth, | Title: The Heiress | 4/30/1953 | See Source »

...might be expected, the production belongs to the ladies. Each of the play's six actresses add enough of their own charm so any minor faults are easily excusable. Especially appealing in a minor part is Suzanne Chappell Finch as an aunt of the heiress. And Suzanne Flinton, Dare Taylor, and Elayne Coyne are respectively clever, coquettish, and cheery in their supporting roles. Danielle Holmgren as Aunt Penniman, perhaps acts a bit too much at one pitch. She is a pert, dove-like person but her fluttering should be decreased, as it is in the last few scenes, to achieve...

Author: By Arthur J. Langguth, | Title: The Heiress | 4/30/1953 | See Source »

...roofers by a family in dire danger of having no roof over their heads: on the way from France is a snarling cousin, to oust papa from the business he has botched. Along with the cousin is his coldblooded nephew, who is jilting papa's daughter for an heiress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play in Manhattan, Mar. 23, 1953 | 3/23/1953 | See Source »

Hollywood's real-estate news of the week: Tobacco Heiress Doris Duke signed papers to buy the massive hilltop villa Falcon's Lair, onetime home of the late Rudolph Valentino...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 16, 1953 | 3/16/1953 | See Source »

Publisher Harrison is the husband of International Harvester Heiress Ann Elaine.*Though Harrison is not putting any money into the magazine at the start, he feels that "everybody who is devoted to it will do what he can and that that time will come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: New Republic Shake-up | 3/16/1953 | See Source »

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