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...grow into a vast commercial success in the '40s and '50s with its own radio shows and scores of Broad way productions. A sometime playwright himself, Langner built the Westport (Conn.) Country Playhouse, with his wife, Actress Armina Marshall, in 1931 for summer stock and pre-Broadway tryouts, in 1950 started the American Shakespeare Festival Theater in Stratford, Conn. All the while, he led a double career, enjoying a rich practice as one of the nation's top patent attorneys, securing rights to his own brainstorms (such as a land-mine destroyer) as well as protecting...
...Hope, Pa., Bucks County Playhouse: A pre-Broadway tryout by John Fritz, When the Beer Goes National, with Paul McGrath and Frances Reid...
Ogunquit, Me., Ogunquit Playhouse: World premiere and pre-Broadway run of There Must Be a Pony, by Jim Kirkwood Jr., starring Myrna Loy as a sort of West Coast Auntie Mame...
Skowhegan, Me., Lakewood Theater: Maureen ("You Tarzan, me Jane") O'Sullivan in a pre-Broadway showing of Cradle and All, a comedy about a couple having their first baby after 27 years of marriage...
...Sammy. Morse's own swift rise on Broadway has not always been so endearing. He was so irritatingly erratic during the road trials of his first play. 1953's The Matchmaker, that the rest of the nervous cast was ready to sign a petition to have him dropped; but he eventually scored a personal triumph, peeping out from under a table shouting, "We're all terribly innocent," and he was the only member of the Broadway cast who was signed to appear in the film version. During the pre-Broadway run of his next play, Say, Darling...