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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Free Fall. In Santa Ana. Calif., after he and ten other prisoners escaped by way of the jail roof, were captured. James E. Barrett alibied: "There was a hole in the wall and I just fell through...
...York: Long run New York plays tonight include "Antie Mame" with Rosalind Russell at the Broadhurst Theatre, "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" at the Morosco, and "Inherit the Wind" with Paul Muni at the Morosco. Gwen Verdon gyrates through "Damn Yankees" on the stage of the 46th Street Theatre, and Frederic March and Florence Eldridge star in Eugene O'Neill's posthumous "Long Day's Journey into Night" at the Helen Hayes. Two Shavian comedies, "My Fair Lady" with Rex Harrison and Lilli Palmer and "The Apple Cart" continue at the Mark Hellinger and the Plymouth...
Whatever Ike is and whatever Ike may yet become derives from his boyhood in the Abilene, Kans, of the 1890s. Ike and his brothers were taught to be mindful of their parents and their Bibles ("there was nothing sad about their religion"). The youngsters played tag on the barn roof and dared one another to lean over the edge, fished lazily for catfish in Mud Creek and the Smoky Hill River, fanned imaginary six-shooters in the style of Abilene's old Marshal Wild Bill Hickok, who had journeyed away to his death in Deadwood not 30 years before...
...flattered by your reference to me as "the high priest" of something, even something called ''merde'' [Oct. 1|, I must put in my two cents' worth of protest. The gentleman quoted, Dean Fitch, may have gone to Cat On a Hot Tin Roof, but he went to it with a pair of tin ears and came out of it with a tin horn to blow. Cat is the most highly, intensely moral work that I have produced, and that is what gives it power. It is an outcry of fury, from start to finish, against...
...construction Breuer suspended the living areas from two massive, laminated double beams placed above the roof to give an uncluttered expanse of ceiling stretching from wall to wall. Then, to emphasize the airy, floating effect, he left space between the box structure and retaining wall, connected house to ground with gangways. The main supporting columns reinforce the theme by stopping just short of the ground, where the weight is transferred to iron rods (which also protect the wood from termites). Says Breuer: "Where there's structure, it is always nice to express...