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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Furthermore, do not open it intending only a quick glance and a passing smile, because you will find yourself reading the entire magazine, except possibly for some rhymed, five-line fillers masquerading as limericks. Take "Speak For St. Joan," for instance. This is a good-natured burlesque of what might happen if two local histrionic organizations were to whip up a joint production. The points of the satire are consistently clear and the lyrics consistently funny, while the madcap climax combines a Cole Porter motif and a Charles Addams taste for the hideously ridiculous into some-thing of a tour...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: On The Shelf | 5/22/1947 | See Source »

...Macomber Affair. Hemingway's savage version of the war of the sexes, in which Robert Preston is bested by Joan Bennett, with the aid of Gregory Peck, a lion and several buffaloes (TIME, April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Current & Choice, May 5, 1947 | 5/5/1947 | See Source »

...Drama League of New York gave Ingrid Bergman a medal for the season's "most distinguished performance" in Maxwell Anderson's Joan of Lorraine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: It's Raining Kudos | 5/5/1947 | See Source »

Shakespeare was a close second to George Bernard Shaw in a poll taken by the VTW among undergraduates last term to determine what kind of drama students here wanted. The Workshop produced Shaw's "Saint Joan" last term, and the coming production is the answer to the second request...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Workshop to Cast Henry IV Monday For Fall Showing | 5/3/1947 | See Source »

...Macomber Affair. Hemingway's savage version of the war of the sexes, in which Robert Preston is bested by Joan Bennett, with the aid of Gregory Peck, a lion and several buffaloes (TIME, April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Current & Choice, Apr. 28, 1947 | 4/28/1947 | See Source »

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