Word: play
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Paul Baker began acting in plays while he was a schoolboy in Waxahachie, Texas, went on to study drama at the town's Trinity University. In 1933 he studied at Yale under the university's late famed Drama Professor George Pierce Baker (no kin). Next year he had set up a shop in a onetime chapel at Baylor, produced an experimental play. All the while he inveighed against the restrictions of conventional theaters-theaters with "one box for the actor and another box for the audience and that's all." The first thing he decided...
...fascinating tour de force, far tougher on its two actors than Broadway's current Two for the Seesaw, the play was further proof that Kit Cornell is still the most enthusiastic road-show actress in the business-and proof once more that Broadway is not the only satisfaction the U.S. has to offer its players...
After six years of life in England, the Baltimore kid had come home to play Gershwin, Debussy and Bach, Rachmaninoff, Ravel and Ellington. Whatever the piece, the pleasure of his fans was the measure of his welcome...
...matter of talent. The son of a Baltimore plumber, he was tossed out of the Peabody School of Music in short order. Diagnosis: a tin ear. He was 13 when he read that the Baltimore Sun was sponsoring a harmonica contest. He spent three weeks teaching himself to play, won, and wasted little time heading for New York...
...time, U.S. producers asked him to return. Now recording contracts are waiting along with nightclub engagements. "I'd like to alternate between the U.S. and the rest of the world," he says, but there is no doubt that recognition at home is what pleases him most. "I played part of Porgy recently," he recalls, "and a member of the cast told me, 'You don't play it; you sing it.' That," says Adler, "is what every musician is trying...