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...Singer Connie Moore, a barber, a general, and a wounded Korean veteran on a stretcher), and tosses off gaily professional asides about baseball that may confuse her housewife listeners. The " mood of something for everyone is heightened by two minutes of The Pocahontas Polka followed by two minutes of Ibsen's A Doll's House. As a commercial bonus, the first show offered three ways of achieving poise: 1) avoid nervous giggles, 2) stand and walk as if you're proud of yourself, 3) use Odorono...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio & TV: The New Shows | 5/14/1951 | See Source »

Baker returns to give English 160, "Drama Since Ibsen." He is always enjoyable to hear, but his lectures are more glib than profound. Baker treats drama primarily as literature, the traditional University aproach...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: English | 4/21/1951 | See Source »

...British government announced that George Bernard Shaw's fussy old Victorian house at Ayot St. Lawrence would be kept as a national shrine. Housekeeper Alice Laden promised to keep everything just as Shaw left it, including his prized photographs of Gandhi, Lenin, Stalin and Ibsen, which line the dining room mantelpiece...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The Family Circle | 3/26/1951 | See Source »

Frederic March and Florence Eldridge are co-starred in Arthur Miller's adaptation of Ibsen's An Enemy of the People. (Boadhurst...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gotham Lights Beckon Exam Weary Students | 2/1/1951 | See Source »

...much an affirmation of minority rightness as a plea for minority rights; it suggests a man persecuted less for telling the unpalatable truth than for having unpopular opinions. It is livelier theater, but it seems even more contrived as a play, and is sometimes very dubious Ibsen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Four of a Kind | 1/8/1951 | See Source »

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