Word: joans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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University attendance records fell this week as more than 3000 people saw the Veterans' Workshop production of "Saint Joan...
...Award (for her work in To Each His Own), came onstage as gauzy and misty-eyed as a Walt Disney angel. She began with a ten-second acceptance speech of simple thanks, fought for control, lost, talked on for another ten seconds and still another. Later, when her sister, Joan Fontaine, rushed backstage to congratulate her, Olivia froze and moved away. (The girls were standoffish even before Joan beat out Olivia for the 1941 Oscar...
...unprecedented demand for tickets to "Saint Joan" led last night to the scheduling of an extra performance Sunday night in Sanders Theater...
Donna Holabird shared her husband's triumph. She brought to the role of Joan an overpowering sincerity which combined with her technique, perfect appearance, and natural charm to bring her probably as close as anyone has ever come to Shaw's concept of the untutored but common-sense country girl thrust by her God into history. The play was more than a personal achievement, however, for the VTW had assembled a supporting cast with an unusual number of almost inspired actors. Under the expert direction of Jerry Kilty and Georgina Johnston, the difficulties of the play were overcome...
...inevitable comparison arises between "Saint Joan" and the Dramatic Club's recent success. What puts last night's production out ahead essentially is the play--the challenge it posed to the Theater Workshop and the way that challenge was met. The Odets was done exceedingly well, but even at its best it offered nowhere near the range of expression in either acting or staging that belongs to Shaw's creation. From every conceivable standpoint "Saint Joan" is a high-water mark in Harvard dramatics. If you let it slip by without seeing it, you are depriving yourself of a rare...