Word: jo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...quiet lyricism of Talk to Me Like the Rain is shattered by 27 Wagons Full of Cotton, for dramatic interest the best play of the three. Jo Linch, as the battered wife of an unscrupulous cotton-ginner, gives by far her best performance in this community, displaying a remarkable gift for change of pace. Occasionally vivacious, Miss Linch reserves her moments of stupidity for the times when she is confronted by a stronger will. Only during a few seconds--while skipping blithely around the stage--does her characterization crack. Andre Gregory, as her seducer, is less successful, partially because...
...last week blonde Clara Jo Proudfoot, 4, of Miami called on the President of the United States. Born with an imperfectly closed spine (spina bifida) and paralyzed from the waist down, Clara Jo was promoting the Easter Seal drive of the National Society for Crippled Children and Adults. As he saw the little girl laboriously making her way into his office on heavy steel braces and pink crutches that matched her well-starched dress, the President uttered an involuntary gasp. He started toward the girl as if to pick her up and carry her to his desk, then checked himself...
...Clara Jo had a sheaf of Easter Seals and a lapel pin; for Clara Jo's cause Ike had $5, and for her stuffed dachshund he had an autograph. Pulling open a drawer of his desk, the President looked at the contents and remarked, "I'm afraid most of these things are for boys." (Actually, many of them are for the President, e.g., half a dozen bottles of assorted potions and pills.) But he found an 1890 (the year of his birth) silver dollar and a white ballpoint pen for the girl, and a penknife for her eleven...
Anna Magnani, of "The Rose Tattoo," won an Oscar as best actress of the year, while Ernest Borgnine, "Marty," was voted the best actor. Jo Van Fleet gained an award as best supporting actress for her role in "East of Eden...
...Jo Mielziner, creator of sets and lighting, extraordinary, adds another triumph to the growing list of shows he has decorated this season. The stage displays a variety and imagination which would be difficult to achieve in a less professional show. The entire production has a Radio-City sheen that is often hard to resist. A couple more rousing songs, and some chopping of the dull ones, would raise the material to the technical level of the production...