Word: joans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...weaker sex was. The leading women did not match the men; neither Joan Corbett (Mabel) nor Dorothy Maney (Ruth) has a particularly fine voice, and neither of them acts very well. Miss Corbett's sense of timing hurt her performance again and again, making her first entrance almost painful; her voice and Miss Maney's sounded strained, particularly on higher notes. I always enjoy praising actresses, but can find little to say for these except that although they did nothing to help the show they did not hurt it badly...
Heat and humidity have irremediably damaged Mural at Harkness Commons, a controversial painting by Joan Miro which hung on the west wall of the Graduate Center's cafeteria until several weeks ago. At that time it was surreptitiously removed to Fogg Art Museum...
...earthy drama about a desperately lonely girl who takes love-and the resultant misery-where she can find it, written by Shelagh Delaney when only 19, has turned out to be one of the season's first dramatic hits. The dialogue is true and the lead performance by Joan Plowright uncannily...
Neighborhood Theater. To create a neighborhood theater was Joan Littlewood's ambition as far back as the early '30s. when she was a scholarship student at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. With a working-class background, she was full of phlegm because "there were hunger marches outside, and inside were girls being taught this tennis-club stuff." After completing the course, she left London on foot to walk north to seek her career, collapsed after 112 miles in Burton-on-Trent. scrubbed out a pub to get fare to go on to Manchester. There...
...earthy drama about a desperately lonely girl who takes love-and the resultant misery-where she can find it, written by Shelagh Delaney when only 19, has turned out to be one of the season's first dramatic hits. The dialogue is true and the lead performance by Joan Plowright uncannily...