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...play is neither a translation of the original nor well-done modern theatre. Guthrie McClintic uses a plain but forceful set modeled after a Grecian interior, but dresses every character in 1946 evening clothes: the lines are a strange admixture of sonorous, poetic speeches for the high-born--tragic figures in the Aristotelian sense--and lower-level American slang for the vulgar; Anouilh preserves the Greek hours, but transforms it into a single narrator reminiscent of "Our Town...
...Touched Me! (by Tennessee Williams & Donald Windham; "suggested" by D. H. Lawrence's short story; produced by Guthrie McClintic) is dubbed a "romantic comedy." Few romantic comedies have either soared with so much message or stooped to so many monkeyshines...
...Glass Menagerie is 31-year-old Playwright Williams' first Broadway production. But he has written eight other plays, including Battle of Angels, which the Theater Guild closed out of town four years ago, and You Touched Me, which Guthrie McClintic plans to bring to Broadway this fall. Though delighted by the award, Williams demurred: "I think The Deep Mrs. Sykes should have gotten the prize." He also doubted whether "the critics will like my future plays as much as this one. In this play I said all the nice things I have to say about people. The future things...
...Guthrie McClintic, who has staged the current production of "The Barretts of Wimpole Street," will address Harvard and Radcliffe students at Longfellow Hall, Radcliffe, Friday afternoon at 4:30 o'clock in the second of the series of annual Winthrop Ames Memorial Lectures. Just returned from a front line tour of the Italian and French battle-fronts with a troupe including his wife, Katherine Cornell, McClintic will speak on "Theatre...
...University of California's Little Theater what he really liked to do. Journeying swiftly to Manhattan, he worked as a World's Fair barker to earn money for dramatic school, later got a job guiding tourists through Rockefeller Center, snared a couple of dramatic scholarships. Then Guthrie McClintic spotted him, gave him a few small parts and finally a big one (in Emlyn Williams' Morning Star) that led to Hollywood...