Word: rainer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Saturday night wraps up the Boston showing of Maxwell Anderson's "Anne of the Thousand Days," starring Rox Harrison and Joyce Redman at the Shubort. "I Know My Love" continues at the Plymouth with the Lunts. Harvard Square's local thespians have imported Luise Rainer this week to spice up their production of Chekov's "The Sea Gull" at the Brattle Theater Company next to the post office. "Regina" winds up its Boston stay on Saturday also, as the Colonial sends this adaption of Lillian Hellman's "The Little Foxes" on to new territories...
...Brattle Theater Company presented the second play of this (its first) winter season, last Wednesday night. It was Chekhov's "The Sea Gull," and appearing with the resident company was the celebrated Viennese actress, Luise Rainer. Chekhov, Miss Rainer, and the Brattle players have never been seen to better advantage by this reviewer. The Brattle Hall group, which in the past few years has done so much to raise the level of drama locally, deserves most special praise for introducing and re-introducing both Chekhov and Miss Rainer to this generation of theatergoers...
...Luise Rainer, who can be remembered for her portrayal of Anna Held in the motion-picture "The Great Ziegfeld," among other outstanding roles, is still no better decribed than by the adjective "captivating." During her longer speeches Wednesday night, particularly the lyrical but incomprehensible 'play-scene' in Act I, Miss Rainer held her audience spellbound by the sheer radiance she brought to the role. During this speech, she made fewer movements than a Madonna, but at other times she did things that no American-trained actress could possibly do and get away with--the mercurial changes of mood, the intense...
...theater has placed tickets on sale for its second production of the fall season, Chekov's "The Sea Gull," starring two-time Academy Award winner Luise Rainer. It will be Miss Rainer's first stage appearance in Boston...
...fervent, forceful man who started this campaign of passive resistance is Rainer Hildebrandt, a 34-year-old German free-lance writer. Sitting in his faded Berlin apartment, Hildebrandt last week explained his purpose: "The Russians will see an F and know that people still have courage to speak up for human decency. German Spitzel [informers] will find the mark on their homes and will wonder whether the Red arm of the MVD is really long enough to protect them. Ordinary citizens, seeing an F, will know they are not alone, that there is more to be done against inhumanity than...