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...prominent part. Although "The Barretts of Wimpole Street" extended to 900 performances, Miss Cornell's favorites are Shavian and Shakespearian roles. As she has no other plans beyond her current production, she may perform "The Barretts" again for a year's run in army camps. Her husband, director Guthrie McClintic, who directed "Lovers and Friends," co-decides with her in the selection of all her manuscripts, she revealed...
...about Katharine Cornell, who once arrived late for her show in Seattle, found her audience patiently waiting, and between 1 and 4 o'clock in the morning presented The Barretts of Wimpole Street, sustained only by one egg rustled up for her at 2 a.m. by Producer Guthrie McClintic. There is a story about Editor Robert Quillen, who used to spice his Fountain Inn (S.C.) Tribune with genealogical notices like...
...Hollywood as the old-school tie and "all that sort of rot" kind of Victorian Englishman, Smith finds himself in his own element as the lovable old American gentleman, Halstead Carter. An able supporting cast, headed by Grace George and Ann Andrews, and the excellent direction of Guthric McClintic combine to fashion an enjoyable play despite the handicap of an old and unwieldy plot...
...nothing is Katharine Cornell the top-ranking actress in the U.S. theater as well as a successful producer as well as the wife of able Director Guthrie McClintic. Over the years Cornell has performed many near-miracles. She has made the yearning soul as good box office as the fiery body. She has made an invalid lady on a couch the essence of glamor. She has turned Shakespeare and Shaw into rousing hits. And when, next week, she brings her revival of Chekhov's The Three Sisters to Broadway, it will boast a dream production by anybody...
Late Returns. Hollywood almost kept Actresses Gordon and Anderson out of The Three Sisters. To begin with, Director McClintic put off starting rehearsals for weeks because the two stars were finishing a movie, The Edge of Darkness. Errol Flynn was in the movie, and also in a mess. Had Hollywood followed its first panic impulse-to reshoot a lot of scenes -it would have meant recasting The Three Sisters. As it was, Actress Gordon arrived ten days late for rehearsals, Actress Anderson two weeks...