Word: playing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first," recalls Director Penn of the Seesaw rehearsal, "she could hardly find the stage. She couldn't stand. She couldn't turn. She'd play with her back to the audience. She was too broad and too vulgar. Even the lawyers and agents connected with the show said, 'She's no good; dump her.' " But Penn had already recognized something Anne's critics had not: she took direction admirably. "I even had to tell her where the jokes were, but once was enough." On the road Gibson would "write a funny line...
Silent Humor. Anne had known that she would be tapped for the part of Annie Sullivan ever since Gibson started working on the new play while Seesaw was still on the road. In the meantime, Anne became engaged, this time to Mario Ferrari-Ferreira, distantly related to the Italian auto family. But by the time Seesaw began its tryout in Washington, Annie was again fed up with the idea of marriage. "The play had become vitally important to me," she says matter-of-factly. "There was no time or energy for anything else." There was also another complication: her Catholicism...
...clearly Italy's gamy popular press, which licks its chops over each new scandal, e.g., last week's story of the couple in Rome, run over and killed while making love on the railroad tracks. Rome's press, while giving the Pope's admonitions good play, implied that he was merely suggesting self-control. "Self-regulation," said Rome's Il Tempo, "is without doubt the best medicine," went on to absolve itself from the Pope's accusations. Most other leading papers followed suit...
...12th century, according to the bawdy Chinese classic. Chin P'ing Mei, there lived a rich and lustful man named Hsi Men. When this libertine wished to indulge in what is delicately called wind and moon play...
Five Finger Exercise. Despite contrived moments and false notes, John Gielgud's eloquent direction and Peter Shaffer's sharp dialogue give atmosphere and tension to this play (with Roland Culver and Jessica Tandy) about an English family and the young German tutor who unwittingly feeds the fire of its discontent...