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...operators meeting in Manhattan last week 1) called for the organization of an independent production unit solely concerned with plays for the road, 2) suggested an industry reserve fund to be built from a 10? bite on every ticket sold on the road, 3) sent Theatre Guild Director Lawrence Langner to plead with actors' agents that they persuade their clients to hit the road...
Bundling is the subject of "The Pursuit of Happiness," by Lawrence Langner and Armina Marshall, and it is on this play that "Arms and the Girl" is based. The new product has a rowdy, bumptious book by Herbert and Dorothy Fields and Rouben Mamoulian. It calls on Nannette Fabray to play a girl who tries to win the American Revolution singlehanded, but succeeds only in causing complete confusion. Her mission brings her to make clever use of her bed in times of crisis--with and without a large, saw-toothed "bundling board." Miss Fabray has plenty of assurance and ability...
...developments: ¶ The Theatre Guild got a well-pedicured toehold in the medium. The first of six Guild-NBC productions, a full-dress treatment of John Ferguson* was presented over NBC. Each play would require four weeks of production, unmentionable costs (mostly paid by NBC). Said Guildsman Lawrence Langner: "We want to communicate culture, not nonsense; to elevate television from the saloon to the living room...
Dunces who have sung with the group since its inception are Walter E. Albrecht Jr. '49, Vivian, Thomas S. Langner '45, Thomas C. Fischer '46, John D. Kendall '45, Edward Prince '49, and James D. Dodge '44. Other contemporary Dunces are John B. Lister '50, James M. Robbins '48, John W. Wade '49, J. Peter Winkelstein '49, Thomas M. A. Schmid '49, Harry F. Booth '48, and Arthur S. Biddle...
Kidner, C. M. Knowles, J. T.; Krakauer, H. R.; Lane L., Jr.; Langner, T. S.; Lansing, C.; Lanzarus...