Word: joans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...think that the casting of a male in the role of Saint Joan is a captivating idea. Might I say that the idea, scintillating as it may be, is not original with the Harvard group. I remember distinctly viewing a dramatization of "Joan" staged by the Whimsy Players of Long neck on the cpae, where several of the young men of the group fairly sparkled in their newly-discovered outlets...
Twelve lovely aspirant ingenues clothed themselves in a green cloak of envy at Sanders Theatre yesterday, as Mendy Weisgal '45, 1G of the Vets' Workshop proudly strapped on medieval armor in an attempt to grant George Bernard Shaw's telegraphed desire for a masculine Saint Joan...
Director Jerome T. Kilty '50 leaned back in his last-row seat in the auditorium, and as Shaw's ideal Saint Joan passionately pleaded with the inquisitors, he closed his eyes and said of Weisgal, "No woman has ever thrilled me so. Ahhhh...
Quivering slightly after receipt of a copy of the wire forwarded by the nono- generian's New York agents, Mendy Weisgal '45, 1G, told reporters that he had gone over the head of Shaw's Boston representatives, the Baker Play Company, because of possible conflict with Maxwell Anderson's "Joan of Lorraine," currently playing in New York...
Meanwhile, Elizabeth Bergner, who portrayed Joan in the original German production, told Kilty at the Boston theatre where she is currently appearing that she would attend casting tryouts at a time to be specified later...