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When famed Communist-line Physicist Irène Joliot-Curie arrived from France a fortnight ago, her overnight detention on Ellis Island stirred many a U.S. citizen to protest (TIME, March 29). News of her arrival also stirred the memory of French Expert Adele Starbird, dean of women at St. Louis' Washington University. In her St. Louis Star-Times column last week, Dean Starbird recalled a 1946 interview with Mme. Joliot-Curie in Paris. Some Curie-isms...
Where Stars Walk (by Micheál MacLiammóir; produced by Richard Aldrich & Richard Myers, in association with Brian Doherty) is the Dublin Gate Theater's third Broadway production and first wholly inside job. Written by one of the Gate's two founders and star performers, the play isn't really much good but it is often exceedingly pleasant. Half fantasy and half satire, in its dawdling as well as its dreaming it is altogether Irish...
...helping a local little theater group do a play about Ireland's legendary Princess Etáin and her faery lover Midir. But while these people are languidly puttering around with legend, the real Etáin and Midir (nicely played by Helena Hughes and Playwright MacLiammóir) are working as Mrs. Sheridan's parlormaid and houseman. Immortals who have strayed far & long from fairyland, they go back to it, hand in hand...
John Bull's Other Island (by Bernard Shaw; produced by Richard Aldrich & Richard Myers, in association with Brian Doherty) gave Broadway its first view of Dublin's Gate Theatre. Founded 20 years ago by Actors Hilton Edwards and Micheal MacLiammóir, who are still its heads and headliners, the Gate has grown more popular in Dublin as the once-great Abbey Theatre has grown less so. Though in Manhattan it will offer only Irish plays, in Dublin (unlike the Abbey) it features foreign ones; it has produced the works of O'Neill, Maxwell Anderson, Kaufman & Hart...
...Pont de Nemours, the president customarily resigns by the time he's 60. Last week, when Walter S. Carpenter Jr. turned the mark, he stepped aside for Crawford H. Greenewalt, 45, a chemist who had joined Du Pont in 1922, later married the daughter of Irénée du Pont. Carpenter became chairman of the board, succeeding 67-year-old Lammot du Pont, who remains a director...