Word: playe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thornton Wilder, no matinee idol at 51, prepared-to play both ends from the middle this week: the male lead in a Berkshire Playhouse version of The Skin of Our Teeth, by Thornton Wilder...
Upton Sinclair's first play in nine years-Giant's Strength-had its 2 ½-hour debut at the hands of a Claremont, Calif. community playhouse. The critics who attended gave it "mixed notices" and confused ones. Some thought it was a sort of cheerful Skin of Our Teeth. Playwright Sinclair, who had stayed away from the rehearsals, stayed away from the opening...
...past, most critics have reached into the most convenient pigeonhole to describe Erica Morini: "The greatest woman violinist . . ." Others could excuse her sex but not forget it: "A great violinist-regardless of sex." But now, after 20 years of hearing her play, most were willing to take Erica as she wants to be taken-as a fiddler...
...used to hide in her father's classroom in Vienna as a tot of three and cry "false" when a student struck a sour note, music has always come first. Now a confirmed classicist, she says that contemporary music "is not music for me-I like to play a tune...
Erica has no children of her own, but likes to play for kids when she can. She cherishes the reaction of a six-year-old who told her after a concert: "I loved your music, it makes me so nice sleepy...