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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...translation of the play does manage to preserve the flavor of the French original, and the imaginative variety of French provincial costumes by Joy Pranulis help to offset a generally roughshod performance. But despite a few graces, Tufts definitely winds up third on the list of this week's dramatic offerings...
What are the chief requisites for a great actor or actress? "Most people will list a great voice and a good-looking body," he said. "But the greater performers have lacked one or both of these--David Garrick, Edmund Kean, Eleanora Duse, Pauline Lord and Helen Hayes, for example." In the movies, even such "good but not great actors" as Humphrey Bogart, Spencer Tracy, Clark Gable and John Garfield were not able to get anything but villain roles for a long, long time...
...beyond the conn of single powers like the Chamber of Commerce or even the select, sacred California Club, whose once-powerful members coached the city from the sidelines (and relegated newsmen-even Timesmen-to the rear elevators of its pink brick sanctuary on South Flower Street). Instead, any random list of the most influential Southern Californians would include both native sons and latecomers whose only connection with each other is that they find themselves appointed more or less to the same civic committees. For example...
...Tanner's trade is boom-escapism; the preferred temperature for hatching one of his books is a Dow-Jones average of 500 or better. Satisfied holders of Auntie Mame can look forward to a fat stock dividend, which Tanner expects to declare on next spring's publishing list. Auntie Mame is going to Europe, though she will scarcely be an innocent abroad. Tentative title: Around the World with Auntie Mame...
...enrolled in the 1957 Summer School, according to figures released last night by Suzanne M. Hildebrand, Summer School Executive Secretary. This is an increase of 200 over last year. The total may even be higher if some 30 or 40, who may have left school, file their final study list, she said...