Word: merediths
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wine flows to the tables of Lyon, Paris and the world from the high-yielding southern slopes of Beaujolais. But the best of Burgundy, the lordly, full-bodied, velvet reds that made Rabelais shout "How good of God to give us of this juice!", the wines that George Meredith called "the best that man can drink," come only from a 12,000-acre belt of tiny plots stretching in either direction from Nuits-St. Georges along the Golden Slope...
...first-magnitude stars include Walter Pidgeon, Charles Laughton, Burgess Meredith, Barbara Bel Geddes, Michael Redgrave, Maurice Evans, Claire Bloom, Fredric March, Shelley Winters. Only the season will tell whether the plays and players look as good on the boards as they promise on paper. But with the curtain about to rise on the 1956-57 season, the only thing Broadway seemed to lack was enough theaters to go around for all the shows that producers want...
...other singers display considerable versatility. Jo Sullivan, as Rosabella the sometime bride, is rather shrill in attempting to combine vivacity with shame. Morley Meredith, the well-meaning, and over-masculine hired hand, is strapping, restless, and insensitive, as he should be. The strength of the cast comes mostly from a huge roster of chorus and incidental players, all in good voice and enthusiasm...
...MEREDITH W. FRY (native of Bedford, Ind.) Jefferson City...
...Times' article also implied that the first of the three productions would star Burgess Meredith in "Hamlet" and that Arthur Kennedy and Mildred Dunnock would act "King John" in the second bill, if they were available...