Word: helens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...week ago the New York Journal-American blared forth in a banner headline: OFF BROADWAY GOES HARVARD. A couple of days earlier, a small box on The New York Times' theatre page had announced that "'Sing Muse', a musical that offers 'a new slant' on Helen and other matters leading up to the Trojan War, will open off Broadway in the first week of December...
...with Negro characters that the N.A.A.C.P. has long claimed do not exist. Here is a cottonpicking Uncle Tom (Godfrey M. Cambridge) who hymns the supposedly subservient spirituals and cringes, hat in hand, before the white man ("You dah boss, Boss"). Here is the bighearted, yuk-yuk-yukking Southern mammy (Helen Martin). Here is the corn-pone simpleton (Ruby Dee) who says things like "Indo. I deed." Here is the unlicensed preacher hero, Purlie Victorious Judson (Ossie Davis)-a liar, a braggart, a trickster, and the self-appointed messiah of his race ("Who else is they got?"). And here...
...came to sip," Ogden Nash has written on the cover of Helen Bevington's new book of very light verse, "and stayed to gulp." Searching for similarly unanticipated delights, the CRIMSON presents, as is its wont, a brace of courses that cheer and may inebriate...
...trouble centered in the group's choice of plays when it planned a five-city Latin American swing earlier this summer. As the idol of the Method-acting school, Williams automatically had to become the focal point of the repertory. But which plays? Helen Hayes and her Government-sponsored ANTA company were soon to tour Latin America with The Glass Menagerie. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof was just "too dirty," and A Streetcar Named Desire called for too large a cast. So the group ended up doing Suddenly, Last Summer and Sweet Bird of Youth...
Playhouse 90 (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.). Helen Hayes and Janice Rule star in Four Women in Black, a drama based on the true story of four nuns who survived an Apache attack and crossed the Mojave Desert to establish a hospital. Repeat...