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...Manhattan, the Perry Awards (Broadway's "Oscars"), for "notable contributions to the current season," were handed out for the third year. The little silver medallions went to Rex Harrison (Anne of the Thousand Days) and Martita Hunt (The Madwoman of Chaittot) for dramatic acting; Arthur Miller for writing Death of a Salesman, and Ray Bolger (Where's Charley?) and Nanette Fabray (Love Life) for their musicomedy performances...
...last week and managed, with little dissent, to pick its favorites of the season. The best U.S. play: Death of a Salesman, a deeply human story of a typical American who so craves success that he is fatally crushed by failure (TIME, Feb. 21). The best foreign play: The Madwoman of Chaillot, an enchanting fantasy about a wacky countess who, Pied Piper-like, rids Paris of its human rats (TIME, Jan. 10). The best musical: South Pacific, a sort of child of Madame Butterfly by Mister Roberts, brilliantly produced with Mary Martin and Ezio Pinza (TIME, April...
Died. Christian ("Bebe") Berard, 46, French artist and designer of costumes and theatrical sets (Beauty and the Beast, The Madwoman of Chaillot), credited with inspiring fashion's 1947 New Look; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Paris...
...peculiarity of this reviewer to expect more from imported plays, such as this one, than of our own unproved offerings. (It is sad to note that the only two new exciting plays this season have both come from France--"Red Gloves" and "The Madwoman of Chaillot." There is no clear evidence that "Figure of a Girl" is worthy of its boat fare.) I therefore was disappointed...
After his death she was variously pictured as a monster, a depraved, ugly, unscrupulous plotter, a madwoman. In Joseph Shearing's short biography this daughter of an impoverished provincial noble is presented, with unqualified admiration, as pure, eloquent, composed, inspired by the noblest of human motives, facing both her crime and its consequences with unearthly serenity. Seven years of seclusion in a convent had deepened her knowledge of and admiration for the noble heroes of antiquity, without giving her an understanding of her own time. On July 10, after giving some of her cherished possessions to her friends...