Word: plays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...averaged about 4.5 yards per carry, in the last three games and was counted on heavily for service against the Indians, has been hit by a respiratory infection this week and is still weak from its effects. It is not definite how much he will be able to play...
Only 26 men will be able to dress for the contest, as shortness of reserves continues as a major problem. However, a few members of the varsity squad will play...
Time Remembered, with big names Helen Hayes, Susan Strasberg, and Richard Burton has just opened at the Colonial. "An aristocratic fable, an intellectual fairy tale," Anouilh's play is Helen Hayes' platinum setting...
Jean Anouilh is an imaginative playwright, which makes him almost unique in the world of commercially successful contemporary theater. His Time Remembered creates a light, slightly mad, slightly ethereal atmosphere which, if rather insubstantial in itself, sets up countless brilliant little touches--situations, moments, gestures, speeches. The play is not in itself as successful as The Lark, or as Thieve's Carnival or Toreadors, both of which it mildly resembles in tone. Yet the present production adds considerable creativity to the script, and makes the show as a whole very nearly live up to the high standards of interest expected...
...acting both herself and the dead ballerina, the milliner successfully wrenches the Prince out of his deep freeze. Finally, after the happy Duchess and her wonderfully inept friend Lord Hector shoot a symbol down from the wings--a bedraggled phoenix, representing the finally defeated spirit of the ballerina--the play ends. It is an aristocratic fable, an intellectual fairy tale...