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...Like any good waiter, Hirschfeld would offer advice to theater producers. Once or twice he advised them to close what he considered an inauspicious show. He urged Lawrence Langner to shut down a musical called "Away We Go!" (it did all right as "Oklahoma!") and begged Moss Hart not to take the fruitless job of staging a musical based on Shaw's "Pygmalion" ("My Fair Lady"). But his generosity of spirit compelled him to help out struggling theater folk. He had gone to Bali in the late 40s and made a silent movie of the dancers there; on his return...
...meeting with agents of the New York Theater Guild in Tel Aviv last week, Golda, 77, signed over dramatic rights to her life story based on her 1975 autobiography, My Life. A nonmusical version of the book will hit the boards some time in 1977, said Guild President Philip Langner. Four Israeli actresses are already under consideration for the starring role, but Langner insists that the casting call will be strictly catholic. Said...
Died. Lawrence Langner, 72, founder, lifelong director and guiding spirit of the Theatre Guild, which turned repertory theater into a high art in the U.S., brought Eugene O'Neill and George Bernard Shaw to the Broadway stage and serious drama to other major U.S. cities; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. A Welshman who emigrated to the U.S. at 21, Langner organized the Theatre Guild in 1918 and saw it grow into a vast commercial success in the '40s and '50s with its own radio shows and scores of Broad way productions. A sometime playwright himself, Langner...
Accent (CBS, 7:30-8 p.m.). A look, from both sides of the footlights, at The American Shakespeare Festival in Stratford, Conn., with Lawrence Langner as guest and Richard Basehart in a soliloquy from Richard...
Person to Person (CBS, 10:30-11 p.m.) Charles Collingwood calls on Eddie Albert and Theatre Guild Director Lawrence Langner...