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...Manhattan, the American Theater Wing presented its annual Antoinette Perry awards ("Tonys"), Broadway's version of the Oscar. Chief recipients: for distinguished performances in dramatic plays-Audrey Hepburn*(Ondine) and David Wayne (Teahouse of the August Moon); best performances in musicals-Dolores Gray (Carnival in Flanders) and Alfred Drake (Kismet); outstanding director-Alfred Lunt (Ondine); outstanding play-Teahouse of the August Moon; outstanding musical-Kismet...
...other kudos for Actress Hepburn, see CINEMA...
Ondine (adapted by Maurice Valency from the French of Jean Giraudoux) brings Audrey Hepburn again to Broadway-or rather, Audrey Hepburn brings Ondine there, as representing her choice from among many scripts. She will almost certainly become the acting sensation of the season, for in Ondine, she has found a part she can act out ravishingly, whether as water sprite or woman. But the part is far more beguiling than the whole. Despite its medieval stage color, its moments of pure enchantment, its other moments of pure Giraudoux, Ondine never quite gets off the ground-or out of the water...
...however becalmed the lake, the spirit that darts out of it has a remote, quicksilverish witchery and wildness. Audrey Hepburn's is, quite literally, a mythical performance...
Actress Katharine Hepburn, 44, traveling in slacks as usual, arrived in England to discuss playing the title role in a movie of George Bernard Shaw's The Millionairess, the play which seemed tailored to order...