Word: rainer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...primping, polishing and rehearsing last week for Broadway. Whatever their merits, none seemed more certain to turn into a hot ticket than the new Rodgers and Hammerstein musical, The Sound of Music. A sentimental evening with the famous Trapp family of singers, the show tells the story of Maria Rainer (Mary Martin), the young postulant from an Austrian convent, whose love for a widower, Captain Georg von Trapp (Theodore Bikel), and his seven children displaces her desire to become a nun. As one theatergoer summed it up: "Nellie Forbush in The Nun's Story." The advance sale has already...
...famed Julien Eltinge, egg-bald T. C. Jones, 39, has been working at his special skill ever since 1946, after he had abandoned study for the ministry, done a hitch in the Navy, and finally crashed Broadway. He earned critical raves when he brought his imitations of Tallulah, Luise Rainer and Bette Davis to Broadway in New Faces of 1956, did even better the following year in Mask and Gown, a sort of one-man one-woman show. This season he is already booked for the part of the prima donna in Friml's The Firefly. Still he complains...
...George B. Sohier Prize of $250 "for the best thesis by a successful candidate for honors in English or Modern Literature" was given to Charles M. McEwen, Jr. '54 for his thesis "Rainer Maria Rilke's 'Fifth Duino Elegy.'" Alexander Welsh '54 won honorable mention for his work entitled "The Experience of Mortality in the Poems of A. E. Housman...
Bridging the Gap. The skies over Hollywood have exploded with new stars time and time again: heavily accented" femmes fatales like Pola Negri, sturdy peasants like Anna Sten, indestructible waifs like Luise Rainer or Elisabeth Bergner, calendar girls like Marilyn Monroe, dignified stars from London's West End like Deborah Kerr. Audrey Hepburn fits none of the clichés and none of the clichés fit her. Even hard-boiled Hollywood personages who have seen new dames come & go are hard put to find words to describe Audrey. Tough Guy Humphrey Bogart calls her "elfin" and "birdlike...
...their casts they boasted William Devlin, Margare Webster, Eva LeGallience, John Carradine, Helmut Dantine, Philip Borneuf, Ruth Ford, Nancy Walker, Sarah Allgood, Betty Field, Claire Luce, Jessica Tandy, Hume Gronyn and many more. Sometimes their personalities clashed with those of the stars. In one play, Luise Rainer threw a glass of water at Bryant Haliday. Later, she told him "If I had six months I could teach you to make love." Yet often Brattle and its guests would get along quite well. The late Sarah Allgood stayed up all night with the cast, guzzling gin and singing Irish ballads...