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...while performing in a Shakespeare play, according to Binger, that Gwynne was discovered by Broadway actress Helen Hayes, who helped launch his Broadway debut in 1952, as a gangster in the play "Mrs. McThing...
...long and varied stage career, which included appearances in the Broadway runs of "Mrs. McThing," "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof," "Love's Labors Lost," "Texas Trilogy," "Hamlet" and "Our Town...
...about the stage, it ought to be the American National Theatre and Academy, chartered by Congress in 1935 to "extend the living Theatre beyond its present limits." Tax-exempt and supported by culture-loving subscribers, ANTA produced many worthy revivals and experimental shows, and even an original hit, Mrs. McThing, but found itself continually broke. Last fall ANTA decided to make some money by investing not in Wall Street, the race track or a brewery, but in the riskiest business of all-Broadway. The results were disastrous...
...Actress Helen Hayes, in her first week as the rollicking, white-haired, fuzzy-headed Duchess in Time Remembered. Shy, tiny (5 ft.) Actress Hayes, regarded by many as the First Lady of the American theater, is delighted to be back on Broadway in her first original role since Mrs. McThing in 1952,. "I couldn't bear to think of anyone else playing that delicious Duchess," she explains. "I guess I was just waiting for the right play to come along...
...deals basically with a mother's smothering love for her son, and enables the performers to toss off a few pseudo-philosophical remarks of apparently little significance and more than a few good jokes. As long as you don't approach it like a Social Relations case study, Mrs. McThing is excellent exam period-type entertainment...