Word: lillian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Savely Sorine, 74, Russian-born portrait artist, best known for his delicate paintings of Britain's Queen Elizabeth II. Russia's late great ballerina, Pavlova, Actress Lillian Gish; in Manhattan...
...Watts. Lillian Gish garnered excited reviews. Hers is indeed a good performance-though of a character that remains uninteresting. As the daughter-in-law, Jo Van Fleet is often vividly and hatefully alive. Both actresses deserve a better play...
While seeming to throttle stage & screen with one hand, television is generously offering help with the other. On Broadway last week, theatergoers and critics gave a modest approval to a TV import: Horton Foote's new play, The Trip to Bountiful, starring Lillian Gish (see THEATER). Last March millions of televiewers saw an hour-long version of the same play, with all but two of the same cast, on the Goodyear-Philco TV Playhouse. Robert Howard Lindsay's The Chess Game, seen in February on the Kraft TV Theater, is scheduled for a Broadway opening later this season...
Graduation Ceremony. In Detroit, Mrs. Lillian Morrison got a divorce from husband Everett after charging that he spent all his time reading the dictionary while she worked, greeted her return from the office every day by forcing her to learn ten new words and answer an oral quiz on them...
...with a 15-minute weekly series, each to consist of a believer's own account of a real-life crisis, followed up with a vest-pocket sermon by Lecturer Harry C. Browne, president of the Mother Church in 1948 and onetime trouper with such greats as Lillian Russell and Irene Bordoni...