Word: joans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Joan Friendly '56, Co-Chairman of this year's Fund Drive, said the aim of the Drive is 100 per cent dormitory giving. To ensure this, she said, each girl will be personally solicited...
...Rice. Spectacular (Sun. 7:30 p.m., NBC). With Judy Holliday, Steve Allen, Dick Shawn. The Bob Hope Show (Tues. 8 p.m., NBC). With Rosemary Clooney. The Best of Broadway (Wed. 10 p.m., CBS). The Man Who Came to Dinner with Monty Woolley, Merle Oberon, Bert Lahr, Buster Keaton, Joan Bennett, Zasu Pitts, Reginald Gardiner...
...backed by a solid company (including Metropolitan Opera Singers Richard Tucker, Leonard Warren and Lorenzo Alvary), he could be sure of top musical quality for the next six weeks. Adler has another novelty in store for next month: the first U.S. performance in operatic form of Honegger's Joan of Arc at the Stake, with Cinemactress Dorothy McGuire speaking the name part...
...well-paced revival of G. B. Shaw's Saint Joan, starring Cinemactress Jean Arthur and directed by Harold (The Member of the Wedding) Clurman, played to capacity audiences in Washington's National Theatre last week. Despite its success, Saint Joan was not headed straight for Broadway. It had already played in Wilmington and would take a 28-week tour of 18 other U.S. cities before hitting Manhattan. Gamble though it is, Joan's tour is less unusual than the company that financed...
...Pennypacker. Neither lost money; Clerk stirred up a critics' controversy. This year Producer Whitehead will present Clifford (Golden Boy) Odets' new The Flowering Peach, plus a pair of plays still in the works. With three Broadway theaters leased, Stevens & Co. will have a sure home for Saint Joan when it gets to Manhattan in April, will have no trouble booking its riskier productions. More important, if Joan's tour (weekly cost: $23,000) pays its way, its producers plan to send at least two or three plays on pre-Broadway tours each year...