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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Scott closed with the prayer of a Herero chief: "O Lord, help us who roam about . . . Give us back a dwelling place...
...dusty, backlands Brazilian hamlet of Estaçäo de Santa Barbara was just a whistle stop on the Paulista Railroad until two foreigners arrived there in 1868. The foreigners were Colonel William H. Norris and his son Robert, unreconstructed U.S. rebels from Oglethorpe, Ga. Heartsick at the South's defeat, they had listened with interest to tales of Brazil, a vast country where slavery was still a respected institution and a gentleman planter could work his lands in peace and dignity...
...Ideas. Last week, after his 10 o'clock show at Cafe Society, 40-year...
That Lady (by Kate O'Brien; produced by Katharine Cornell) is ornate claptrap laid in 16th Century Spain and starring Katharine Cornell. The lady in question is Ana de Mendoza y de Gomez, a widowed princess who wore a patch over one eye, and her heart, to her undoing, on her sleeve. Cruel, capricious Philip II was Ana's devoted friend until she became his Secretary of State's enraptured mistress; thereafter the King, out of pique and jealousy, hounded the lovers implacably. The Secretary (Torin Thatcher) escaped at last to Aragon; Ana was kept a prisoner...
Through ten scenes compounded about equally of history and Hollywood, Playwright O'Brien chronicles all Ana's ecstasies and woes. Rich in period costumes, and richer in theatrical cliches,' That Lady accelerates now & then from the speed of a glacier to that of glue. It is enacted, moreover, in whaleboned prose: characters address one another as "dear friend." and favor such pronunciations as "princess...