Word: jeane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Behrman's favorite modern playwright is the late Frenchman Jean Giraudoux; Giraudoux's characters, he says, are "human beings of acute sensibility; they are not thugs or sadists, but suffering, cultured people." He does not find much value in the angry works of John Osborne or in the experimental theatre of Samuel Beckett. "Osborne is an arresting writer; he makes you listen to him, but his characters are monsters and have no awareness that they are monsters...
...dormitory leaders include: Bertram, Jean M. Tyback '60; Briggs, Caroline F. Miller '60; Cabot, Gabriella I. Stevens '60; Comstock, Anne B. Huntington '60; Eliot, Eugenie D. Rudd '60; Holmes, Maureen T. McCarthy '60; Moors, Liia Annus '60; and Whitman, Sigrid Valfells...
...grand'mère of telephone dramas, Jean Cocteau's one-act, one-character play The Human Voice (1930) returned last week in a fine musical version by French Composer Francis (Dialogues of the Carmelites) Poulenc. Staged in Milan's La Piccola Scala, with shimmering Soprano Denise Duval as the distraught mistress, Poulenc's opera lifted the play again to the lyric tragedy that Cocteau intended: "The worst tragedy that can happen to us all-love and abandon...
Such radical departures were regarded with jaundiced disapproval by General Manager Stubbs, a Guy Gannett conservative. The breach between Stubbs and Roger Williams widened into an open feud. "Stubbs didn't care a hoot about improving the paper,'' said Jean Gannett Williams, who did. Last fall, worn out by refereeing the quarrel, Jean collapsed, was hospitalized with pneumonia. A long convalescence gave her ample time to think...
Last week, with the assurance of five years' experience-the last two the most profitable in history-Jean took charge. Out went Publisher Williams and General Manager Stubbs. In as publisher and undisputed baroness of the Gannett chain: Jean Gannett Williams. 35. They are Jean's five papers...