Word: madwoman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mediocrity. As a matter of fact, Mr. Capp, it was only after you disassociated yourself from Falk that he offered us in 1957 a season0of nothing but good, plays: Jonson's Volpone, Anouilh's Thieves' Carnival, Fry's Venus Observed, Shaw's Back to Methuselah, Giraudoux's The Madwoman of Chaillot, and Graham Greene's The Potting Shed. He lost money; and last summer he lowered the quality of his choices somewhat, and still lost. So he threw in the towel...
Auntie Mame. Too late for Halloween and too early for New Year's Eve, but the Madwoman of Beekman Place raises hell anyway, Constance Bennett in CHICAGO, Eve Arden in SAN FRANCISCO and Sylvia Sidney in HUNTINGTON...
Auntie Mame. Too late for Halloween and too early for New Year's Eve, but the Madwoman of Beekman Place raises hell anyway. Constance Bennett in CHICAGO, Eve Arden in SAN FRANCISCO, and Sylvia Sidney in LAFAYETTE and BLOOMINGTON...
...presented a shocking sight: crowds of people who were fully dressed, or almost. To celebrate the London premiere of Auntie Mame, starring Bea Lillie, Producer David Pelham had picked the Turkish bath as the logical place for a party. The result was as wacky a shindig as any the Madwoman of Beekman Place herself might have improvised...
...eleven years, it averaged one or two works of top quality each season amidst a mass of mediocrity. Last summer producer Lee Falk offered nothing but plays of high quality--Jonson's Volpone, Anouilh's Thieves' Carnival, Fry's Venus Observed, Shaw's Back to Methuselah, Giraudoux's The Madwoman of Chaillot, and Graham Greene's The Potting Shed. The 1958 season of eight plays constituted a letdown from last year, but it was far better than all the pre-1957 seasons...