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...Producer Jed Harris may put on the long-promised Thornton Wilder play, Emporium, a story of a symbolic department store; Harris will also direct Paddy Chayefsky's prize ring drama, Fifth from Garibaldi...
...grimly instructive. Many of its scenes have real theatrical power. The play at its best is hard-hitting sociological melodrama, though even here it would gain from fewer and more sharply aimed blows. And helped by performances from Arthur Kennedy, Walter Hampden, Beatrice Straight, E. G. Marshall and others, Jed Harris has staged the play with consistent though conventional vigor...
Tracy got interested in TV 2½ years ago when he was playing in Jed Harris' Broadway production of The Traitor: "I went into '21' one night and here were all these people standing around, not even drinking, just watching Milton Berle. I decided right away that this was for me." Last May the leading role in Martin Kane, which had been successively filled by William Gargan and Lloyd Nolan, fell vacant. Says Tracy: "They opened negotiations with me and I jumped at the chance." He almost regrets that he has made a rule never to tell...
...afternoon, President Spyros Skouras of Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp., who lives in the New York suburb of Rye, offered a lift home to his neighbor, Jed Harris, the New York theatrical producer. Harris accepted. This is what happened afterward, as he recalls...
...body, even the turning of the pages, becomes important," explains Laughton. "You mustn't move, except for a startling effect." As the tempo increases, an actor will slip from his stool and move to center stage in time for his big prose "aria." As theater-wise Director Jed Harris pointed out: "By appearing to read, but actually knowing their parts by heart, they make the whole thing come alive. In a theatrical production, the power of illusion would be much more difficult." Playwright J. B. Priestley, who saw the show in Brooklyn, was inspired to write the actors...