Word: losey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Spain while an officer in the Loyalist Army-in charge of the script, it was wanted by the Theatre Guild, rumored sold to Gilbert Miller, to Jock Whitney. No rumor held water long. Last week, it was officially announced that The Fifth Column had been sold to Joseph Losey. The terms: $1,000 advance royalty, production by October 15. Losey, 29, is the husband of Dressmaker-Author Elizabeth Hawes (Fashion Is Spinach), has been stage manager for Jed Harris and Gilbert Miller, director for the Federal Theatre Project. Mentioned hopefully for lead in The Fifth Column: Cinemactor Gary Cooper...
...respect, at least, this must be considered the most significant play presented at Harvard for many a year. An amateur production which can boast among its designers Virgil Thomson, collaborator with Gertrude Stein in that lady's only opera, and Joe Losey, director of "Lil' Ole Boy," is rare indeed. But the consideration of these facts must make the critical judgment of the effort more searching than would otherwise be the case. In respect to theme, "A Bride for the Unicorn" cannot be considered as more than a competent synthesis of a group of philosophical and aesthetic conceptions which have...
Rigorous have been the preparations for tonight's opening. During the past week, Joe Losey, prominent Manhattan director, has supervised the intensive rehearsals in Holden Chapel and Phillips Brooks House. Members of the technical staff of the Dramatic Club have kept things whirring at the organization's workshop as sets for the drama...
...Harvard players consider themselves particularly fortunate to have obtained the services of Director Joe Losey and Cmoposer virgil Thomson. Losey leaped inot prominence along Broadway last year by his excellent treatment of Albert bein's "Little Ol' Boy," while it is chiefly because of his musical setting for Gertrude Stein's "Four Saints in Three Acts" that Thomson, former director of the Harvard Glee Club, has won renown...
Another aspirant, also mentioned for this part is Miss Nancy Faxton. As Mr. Losey himself said, "The choice of the other character is, as yet, indefinite--very indefinite...