Word: langner
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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...
...Heroes. The Theatre Guild's President Lawrence Langner thinks that scripts cater to parochial Broadway tastes, insists that the rest of the nation is not so fond of rape, reefers and sodomy. His views won front-page attention in a recent issue of Variety under the banner: FOLKS DON'T DIG THAT FREUD. And Broadway Critic John Chapman has been offering a similar warning: the theater is in atrophy, he suggests, because it has lost faith in the spirit...