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...said. "The Catholic press is saying we are doing a Communist play." All that had happened was that a columnist for some 45 Roman Catholic newspapers and magazines had written a story complaining that CBS was about to stage a play whose off-Broadway version in 1954 pleaded "for soft handling of suspected Communists." The story sent Madison Avenue into a flap, and ad agencies for go's five sponsors talked of backing out. Officials at CBS rushed down a wad of proposed script changes...
...open the off-Broadway Phoenix Theater's fifth season British Director Tyrone Guthrie has offered a Mary Stuart that stresses, that highlights, that exults in its age. Guthrie's production is high-busted, brass-throated, old-style theater. Its smallest scene is a Big Scene; it tosses mere suicide into a scene shift. A sound playwright, Schiller begins virtually at the end-with the Queen of Scots' rash, stormy, ill-starred life behind her and the peers condemning her to death. The play itself, though aswirl with intrigue, assassination plots and lust-devoured deliverers, really turns...
With Harrison onstage night after night playing My Fair Lady, Kay spends her time touring theaters (she claims to have seen all on-and off-Broadway shows) or listening to American jazz (old Bessie Smith records) in their rented Manhasset, N.Y. home. "I've had too many years of rushing around from hotel to hotel and town to town and waking up alone in the morning." At 31, Kay Kendall says: "It's a joy for me to have a home, dogs and husband-not necessarily in that order...
Hyman did the role of Othello off-Broadway three or four years ago. Though I was not able to see it, I understand it was a wild and explosive interpretation. Since then Hyman has thought a great deal more about the part, and now performs it in a controlled crescendo. He has felt driven toward Huston's kind of "subdued conception." The difference is that Hyman accomplished in three years what took Huston three decades...
This production, using the standard translation by Lucienne Hill, has been staged by Warren Enters, who directed it a few seasons back for its highly successful off-Broadway run. He is inventive and clearly knows what he is about, abetted by Jack Brown's serviceable sets and Al Petruccelli's effective lighting. On opening night, some of the bubbles had escaped from Anouilh's effervescent champagne; but by now the performance should be consistently heady...