Word: playe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only one question: who had backspin on shooters and who didn't. Backspin, to make the shooter stick in the ring, was the key to success on the slick cork rings, which were faster than dirt. No one gave away any trade secrets. Roanoke asked Columbia, S.C.: "Ever play for fun?" Columbia answered scornfully: "Whaddaya mean...
...drama department at Catholic University in Washington,D.C. is the best collegiate play factory since George Pierce Baker's late, great 47 Workshop at Harvard. It also has a broader backstairs to Broadway. In the last nine years, seven C.U.-produced plays (including Lute Song and Sing Out, Sweet Land) have opened in New York. Last week C.U. added a stairway to Hollywood...
Last week the festival opened without a star (Father Hartke had wanted Jimmy Stewart, who couldn't make it), but with much of the ceremony given a Hollywood premiere. The play itself, John McGiver's All Gaul Is Divided, was a comedy about G.I. black market operations in France, and perhaps not worth so much fuss. But stage & screen bigwigs by the dozens and critics by the score came to look things over. Paramount and Pathe newsreelmen took shots. This week NBC will telecast the play, plans to do the same for all seven plays...
...West Coast, a few summer theaters seem to be catching on with a slightly different hold. One example is the Selznick Actors' Company (operated by Dorothy McGuire, Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten, Melchor Ferrer, Gregory Peck), which will present a play a week for six weeks. Explains Cinemactor Peck: "The Old Vic and Olivier have made us Hollywood actors very unhappy with our swimming pools...
...talky. What's more, the characters are all fairly dull, particularly those who are meant to be most fascinating. As the magnetic Laura, K. T. Stevens proves a washout in everything but looks; and, though Otto Kruger acts the decadent, supposedly brilliant Lydecker skillfully, the authors of the play make him a bore...