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...nursing school. She got a job with a stock company in Sussex, later went on to the Royal Academy and the Old Vic. In 1952, Moss Hart brought her to the U.S. in The Climate of Eden. While working in a Wellesley, Mass., repertory company, she met Ellis Rabb, a Tennessean who had studied acting at Carnegie Tech. They got married, and a month later Rabb launched the APA and remains its strong guiding hand...
...averse to making money.") Meanwhile, the itinerant Association of Producing Artists, which established its Broadway beachhead last fall with a successful revival of You Can't Take It With You, will be around for the whole season. The APA company, adorned by Helen Hayes, Ellis Rabb and Rosemary Harris, will range from Shakespeare and Sheridan to Ibsen and Pirandello...
HOLLYWOOD, Huntington Hartford Theater: Ellis Rabb's Association of Producing Artists revival of You Can't Take It with You, which played to packed houses on Broadway, proving that age is only relatives...
...late George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart would scarcely have dreamed that a scene like this could form the tender touchstone of their 29-year-old farce-comedy, but Director Ellis Rabb and his gifted APA company have had the wit to see that two people falling honestly in love on a modern stage is a total surprise. They have further grasped that the '30s can be nostalgically re-created as a golden age of moneyless innocence, and that in an era of black comedy, human comedy has vastly appealing warmth...
Despite her undimmable presence, however, the company can stand alone, and in proof of that, Rabb and three other troupe members, not including Miss Harris, performed the hour-long "Don Juan in Hell" scene from Man and Superman last week for TV's non-network Esso Repertory Theater. The fine hour-long performance should build the group's following just when it needs it. With a larger capacity next year in the Lyceum, the aim is to build this year's 7,500 subscribers to 20,000. At Michigan in late September the company will break...