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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Frank Sinatra found a fine refuge from bobby-soxers: a U.N. Security Council meeting. "The Voice" attended in peace with Sculptor Jo Davidson, departed unmolested. Nearest thing to an upsetting experience was some picture-taking later: Sinatra and his big bow tie (his wife makes them for him) didn't look half so much like a heart-leaping popular idol as 63-year-old Davidson and his little...
WASTELAND - Jo Sinclair - Harper...
...character, Actress Field (in private life, Mrs. Elmer Rice) shows astonishing verve and versatility. Only a step or two behind her in skill is Wendell Corey as the newspaperman. Not the least entertaining part of Dream Girl is its ingenious stagecraft: three sliding platforms on which Stage Designer Jo Mielziner has mounted all sorts of stylish and witty little sets, using normal lighting for Georgina's real life, a blue spot for her trances...
With his Dream Girl sets, boyish, 44-year-old Jo Mielziner (pronounced Mell-zeener) completed his 150th Broadway assignment. Since he first caught the public's eye in 1924 with his sets for The Guardsman, he has designed such varied productions as Strange Interlude, Street Scene, The Barretts of Wimpole Street, the Katharine Cornell Romeo and Juliet, the Gielgud Hamlet, Winterset, Watch on the Rhine, The Glass Menagerie, Carousel. Most theatergoers today, asked to name a stage designer, and most producers out to hire one, would think first of Mielziner...
Suddenly Author Katz glanced at the unparalleled scene around her and cried: 'If I do not have a book to read, I shall jo mad. Is it good?" she asked, glancing at her daughter's book...