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...sense Joan goes through the entire play with "her eyes skyward." This is a far different approach from the one which Jean Anouilh and Lillian Hellman took in The Lark--a comparison of the two plays seems both inevitable and intriguing--and dramatically it is a much more difficult approach. Shaw has purposely deprived himself of the spontaneous, natural, earthy Joan who made such an attractive heroine for Anouilh. Instead he has made her a saint--and everyone knows that there is nothing duller than a saint's life...
...seems that The Chalk Garden, currently playing at the Boston Summer Theatre, "unites the Gish sisters, Lillian and Dorothy, on a stage for the first time in half a century." As one who wasn't around 50 years ago, and who until the other night had never seen either of the Gishes perform, I can't be too impressed by this theatrical precedent. I can report, however, that the Misses Lillian and Dorothy are both fine actresses, and that they make The Chalk Garden a sparkling, engaging play...
...Gishes both gave creditable performances--Lillian as Miss Madrigal and Dorothy as Mrs. St. Maugham--although they seemed somehow reluctant to lose themselves in their parts and to forget that after all, they are the Gishes. Lillian especially kept the passions within her a little too well hidden. Charron Follett, as the excitable, Gigi-like Laurel, had a part which could easily have been overplayed, but she handled it very well. O. Z. Whitehead was stiff at first but afterwards quite engaging as the butler. Only Frances Ingalls, as Laurel's young mother, was much too unsure of herself...
...Boston's New England Mutual Hall, changing casts will offer one-week stands of varying fare, such as "The Chalk Garden" with Lillian and Dorothy Gish...
...School News has walked the tightrope of factual reporting so skillfully that partisans on opposite sides now look up to it, and an increasing number of Southern newspapers are carrying its stories. A single mail brought subscription renewals from Georgia's Segregationist Herman Talmadge and Desegregationist and Novelist Lillian (Strange Fruit) Smith. Last week the service's correspondents were back at their posts throughout the South after a conference in Nashville to plan another year of "providing accurate, unbiased information...