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Ford Theater (Fri. 9 p.m., CBS). Hecht & MacArthur's Crime Without Passion, with Claude Rains and Margo...
...movie-scripter (The Fan), seemed to be headed toward Broadway again. It had been 25 years since her first and only Manhattan production-Close Harmony, a flop co-authored by Elmer Rice. In Dallas last week, jittery but still hopeful, she sat with Collaborator Ross Evans in Margo Jones's Theater '49, awaiting the local verdict on their new play, The Coast of Illyria...
...semi-official blessing to the struggling young repertory groups that have been attempting to divert some of the movie addicts from their well-worn rut which leads them almost unconsciously to weekly devotional service at the temples to their idols. ANTA's most successful god-child has been Miss Margo Jones' Dallas Theater. Currently its fond eyes are fixed on Boston where the Boston Repertory Association began operations three weeks ago at the Copley Theater...
Play-selection is the most difficult and decisive job before the Messrs. L. and S. They are inclined these days to speak of Margo Jones and of creating a "Boston's Old Vic." They would do well to look at the programs as well as the ideas of those two organizations. They do not, as a general rule, produce plays that merely strike the fancy of the directors unless they also have some recognized artistic value or promise...
Summer and Smoke (by Tennessee Williams; produced by Margo Jones) is all too plainly-but not too happily-by the author of The Glass Menagerie and A Streetcar Named Desire. What stamps, and sometimes rubber-stamps, it as his is the nature of the story and the style of the storytelling; far too often missing is the talent of the storyteller...