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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...large cast is unwieldy, and Director Martha Farrar has obvious difficulty in keeping the stage from looking cluttered. The dances, which could add much to the quick pace of the play, are unimaginative and drawn...

Author: By Richard H. Ullman, | Title: Two Plays by Yeats | 12/12/1953 | See Source »

...sound, building subtly from the elusive sighings of the first scenes to the full-blooded climax near the end. Onstage, Baritone Theodor Uppman sang and acted Pelléas asif he believed him. Baritone Martial Singher (as the half brother), Basso Jerome Hines (as the half-blind grandfather) and Martha Lipton (as Pelléas' mother) all sang like fine anti-Wagnerians. And though the delicate voice of Soprano Nadine Conner (Mélisande) sometimes seemed half lost in the glimmering sound from the orchestra pit, her performance came even closer than the others' to the opera...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Anti-Wagner Opera | 12/7/1953 | See Source »

Comedy Hour (Sun. 8 p.m., NBC). Martha Raye, with Milton Berle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADIO: Program Preview, Nov. 16, 1953 | 11/16/1953 | See Source »

Milton Berle Show (Tues. 8 p.m., NBC). With Martha Raye...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADIO: Program Preview, Nov. 9, 1953 | 11/9/1953 | See Source »

...slapstick skit on her Manhattan TV show, Comedienne Martha Raye tried to pass herself off as another Gabor sister, but found that her resemblance to glamorous Magda, Eva and Zsa Zsa overstrained the family...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 9, 1953 | 11/9/1953 | See Source »

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