Word: nathan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York City's Drama Critics Circle decided to forego the cocktail party at which it usually honors the winners of its annual awards (see THEATER). George Jean Nathan (Journal-American and other Hearst papers), grumpy granddaddy of the critics, was heard to mumble something to the effect that it was "humiliating" to have to mingle with actors. But Colleague Richard Watts Jr. (Post Home News) confessed that this was not the whole story of how the critics really feel: "The melancholy truth is that most of them don't really like each other...
Commencement chaplain will be the Rev. Nathan W. Wood, pastor of the First Baptist Church in Arlington, whose daughter, Alice Wood, is also in the graduating class...
...most consistent good support came from the female players. Gail Winslow as Maggie Cutler and Pola Chasman as Lorraine Sheldon were the most able, a happy chance considering the amount of plot and dialogue that depends on them. Barbara Nathan as an adoring, breathless, and retired Lizzy Borden, makes more of her short part than anyone else in the east. She is genteel and delicately loony with the greatest charm...
Portrait of Jenny (Selznick), originally a wispy, sentimental fantasy by Robert Nathan, has become in Hollywood's hands a piece of purest fustian. The yarn it spins oncerns a young painter (Joseph Cotten) who falls in love with a twelve-year-old sprite of a girl named Jenny (Jennifer Jones). Though she has been dead for years, Jenny goes right on popping in & out of Cotten's life. What is more confusing, she is a few years older every time she appears and soon reaches an age where it is respectable for Gotten, who is aging only normally...
Jerome T. Kilty '50 will read the role of Coriolanus; Jan Farrand, Volumnia; Frederick A. Gwynne '51, Aufidius. Directors of the production are Lloyd S. Gilmour '50, David G. Nathan '51, and Lloyd W. Georgeson...