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Dolly's destiny took a different turn. In an English remake of "Broken Blossoms," directed by her first husband John Brahm, she played the Lillian Gish role; then she was offered a three-year Hollywood contract by Myron Selznick (whose father had hired the teenage Hirschfeld). But she made no...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Old Feeling: The Fun in Al Hirschfeld | 1/29/2003 | See Source »

Died. Erwin Piscator, 72, German director-producer and theatrical gadfly who in the 1920s made Berlin's theater ring with the cries of tortured humanity in such productions as the bitingly antiwar Good Soldier: Schweik (1928), fled the Nazis in 1933, but returned after the war to continue his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Apr. 8, 1966 | 4/8/1966 | See Source »

Both books were written in dialogue, and the two main characters, Piscator and Viator (changed in later Walton editions to Venator) are the same. Both books give similar information on how to bait a hook with a dead minnow and prepare certain kinds of fish. They even share the same...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Worthy of Perusal | 12/31/1956 | See Source »

When critics describe a play as realistic and lifelike, playwright, director, and cast usually smile at their success. They have created the illusion of reality, of life, on the stage and thus have reached theatre's traditional goal. Yet, in 1920 there began a German theatrical group which longed to...

Author: By Robert H. Sand, | Title: Something Different | 4/27/1955 | See Source »

Complete Scale. How could a youngster of 23, with only four Broadway parts behind him, strike so deep and come up with so much? His teacher, Stella Adler, has an answer: "Marlon never really had to learn to act. He knew. Right from the start he was a universal actor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Tiger in the Reeds | 10/11/1954 | See Source »

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