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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...belief is," replied Illinois' Dirksen, "that she may have had some provocation-among other things, Wayne has made her out to be a liar and dishonest." Next day Dirksen finished the debate off by revealing how low the Morse attack had fallen. Morse, he said (and Morse later verified it), called Mrs. Luce's physician in New York in an attempt to find out whether she had ever been under psychiatric care. Dirksen, quoting the doctor, said: "She-isn't and wasn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: The Compromised Mission | 5/11/1959 | See Source »

...hung in the garish foyer; tired stars peeled off the blue-sky ceiling. The place was so big that a dusty curtain divided it in half, and on the working side there were still 1,310 seats. It was hardly the setting for an intimate, sophisticated new drama: Dear Liar, an adaptation by Actor Jerome Kilty of the famed letters between George Bernard Shaw and Victorian Actress Stella (Mrs. Patrick) Campbell. Nor was it precisely right for the stars: clip-toned Brian Aherne playing opposite no less a grande dame than Katharine Cornell, resplendent in velvet gowns by Cecil Beaton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ROAD: Shaw with Water | 4/27/1959 | See Source »

Last week Dear Liar wound up a highly successful "dry run" of 43 performances, hitting all the stops from Arizona to Florida. Next October, Cornell and Aherne will launch an even more ambitious tour stretching from Boston to Los Angeles. Finally, at year's end, they will arrive on Broadway for four weeks, then hit the road again. Bookings to date: solid through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ROAD: Shaw with Water | 4/27/1959 | See Source »

...certainty is the more horrible because her family will not believe her story of the crime. They first ignore, then mock her. "Hilary, I hate a liar," says her father. Her wambly, 17-year-old stepsister Janet is too busy with a married schoolmaster to watch over her charge. Auntie Florence, nearly 80, who combs the beach for "anything and everything" and hides her treasure in a cave, is absorbed in herself. Only Hilary's younger brother Peregrine, whom she alternately pets and patronizes, shares her "delicious fearfulness." But eventually even he fails her. And when Hilary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Charm & Chill | 3/16/1959 | See Source »

...friends seem a tacky lot. There is Mrs. Belmore, the rich, vulgar American, and beautiful but unladylike Lauriol, who seems to have certain claims on Colum that Margaret does not care to think about. More unsettling is the fact that Colum rapidly proves himself to be an unmitigated liar and a compulsive thief. One of his pranks causes the death of Mrs. Belmore, a nasty brush with the police and the apparent ruin of his film career. Desperate, Margaret tries prayer to St. Anthony and, as a last resort, appeals to Father McBane, one of those all-wise priests...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mixed Fiction, Feb. 16, 1959 | 2/16/1959 | See Source »

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