Word: liliane
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Though for months Vi's were whistling all around the theater, the cast never missed a performance. "There were plenty of times when we were ready to chuck it," one young actress admitted, "but what could we do when Dame Lilian kept going on?" Dame Lilian Braithwaite, Arsenic's Abby Brewster and the English stage's Grand Old Lady, can be more frightening than bombs. A clergyman's daughter who has triumphantly passed almost 50 of her 70-odd years in the theater, she looks like anybody's sweet old grandmother. But she combines plenty...
Certain occasionally reliable sources who attended the Brooks House Freshman Smoker Wednesday night report that Harvard's newest printed pamphlet, Wake, proudly claims to have been banned in certain sections of nearby Boston. Lilian Smith can move over...
...Emma Cons' musical, driving niece, Lilian Baylis, who brought the Old Vic back into the limelight by putting genius ahead of gentility. She introduced the new "moving pictures," then opera and concerts, finally the repertory company that made the Old Vic a worldwide synonym for Shakespeare...
Refuge. The Parnikovs, a couple of papier-mâché old guard aristocrats, took her in. They turned against her when she visited their daughter Lilian, a long-nosed, ugly, attractive whore who lived with a killer for the secret police. "He is dreadful," said the old people. "He wears a shamelessly new leather coat, lives in scandalous plenty-she told me they even had meat and wine and sugar, and he shoots people by the dozen. They have no home life...
Despite all these shortcomings, the play has possibilities. The smaller characters are all rather well played. The set is good and the director, Mrs. Lilian Arnold, is quite competent...