Word: kerrs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trying to clean up the homosexual theme in Tea and Sympathy by making the young hero-who suffers doubts about his manhood-simply "offbeat," i.e., nonconformist. However, Cinemactress Deborah Kerr is already reported as saying that she will walk out on the picture if the consummation scene with the hero is not left...
...rare good deed to impress her husband, decides to buy some expensive new ones. This upsets crotchety Lillian Gish, business manager of the clinic, who has her irascible eye fixed on some bargain cotton. Even worse, the clinic therapist, Lauren Bacall, has already promised Problem-Patient John Kerr that he can design the new draperies himself...
...opinions of Walter Kerr on the state of the American drama are interesting and thought-provoking . . . As a teacher who finds it professionally necessary to talk about the drama but who cannot afford the cost of contemporary playgoing, I submit that the real thing wrong with our theater is economic. Only the fashionable and well-heeled can afford theatergoing in our time...
...lure back their audiences, says Kerr, modern playwrights must offer them once again "a robust and companionable outsized experience," full of sound, color, movement, conflict, and the "sort of magical speech" which can best be achieved in verse. ("Every major serious play-and the lion's share of the comedies-that we cling to out of the past are verse plays...
None of this will be accomplished easily or quickly, Kerr predicts. But unless a start is made by the younger playwrights, "the theater as we know it may cease to function entirely...