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...usually comes in, and the feet graped with blisters, but not for Sandy. She had been in Manhattan only a few months when an off-Broadway producer stopped her on the street, asked if she was an actress, then said he wanted her to read for a part in Ibsen's The Lady from the Sea. She got it, and everything has swum since then. She is out of the cold-water flat and into a five-room place on the-upper West Side, which she shares with a couple of dogs and a calico...
Died. Joseph Schildkraut, 68, Vienna-born actor who won star billing on Broadway in 1921 as the carnival barker in Molnar's Liliom, parlayed his talents into more than 60 screen roles, two dozen onstage, 80 on television, commencing with romantic leads in his salad days (Ibsen's Peer Gynt, Benvenuto Cellini in The Firebrand), evolving into character parts such as Papa Frank in The Diary of Anne Frank; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
...Italian, a Frenchman, a Yugoslav, a Greek -are the generally obscure writers who won Nobel Prizes (worth $51,158 this year) between 1959 and 1963. In 62 years of Nobel-picking, the Swedish Academy of Literature has ignored an incredible array of logical candidates-Chekhov, Conrad, Frost, Hardy, Ibsen, Joyce, Sartre, Malraux, Moravia, Pound, Proust, Tolstoy, Mark Twain, Zola-not to mention the glaring neglect of non-European writers, notably in China, India and Japan...
Director John Austin and his cast present Ibsen's Ghosts as the sort of dust-bound "classic" that has lost all ability to convince. The actors do not seem to believe their lines very strongly and they rarely inspire much belief in the audience...
This reflects less on the actors than on Austin, whose direction is an uninspired as the acting. The painfully slow dimming of lights with which he ends his acts simply does not come off. And his handling of the final scene is inexcusable. Ibsen leaves his audience with the horror of Oswald's insanity and Mrs. Alving's terrible indecision whether or not to give him the fatal dose of morphine he requested. Austin gives her time to reach positive decision drawing attention away from Oswald and letting her escape her dilemma...