Word: saint
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Saint? It may be a long time before the Christian world knows what to make of the Frenchwoman named Simone Weil. She was born (in 1909) into an agnostic Jewish family, and died (in 1943) a passionate Christian mystic (TIME, Jan. 15). She was deeply influenced by Roman Catholicism, but could never bring herself to become a Catholic, or even to be baptized. She wrote hardly a line for publication, but her diaries, letters and a few essays contain a vivid and challenging sense of the presence...
...Saint Joan is one of Shaw's best under the direction of Margaret Webster. Uta Hagen leads in this brilliant Plymouth performance...
Although Shakespeare might turn over in his grave if he could see what happened to his "The Taming of the Shrew." audiences are still enjoying Cole Porter's gay musical after to years of popularity. While it was still a Broadway success, producers Saint Suber and Lemuel Ayers organized a national company of "Kiss Me Kate" and brought it to 54 cities in the United States and Canada. Now this charming bit of fantasy is back in Boston to haunt theater-goers with its hit tunes and exotic settings...
...Much of "Saint Joan" is like much of Shaw: lectures amusingly presented in dialogue form. Yet on several occasions he comes up with lines so thrilling, so poetic, that one starts to consider his claims against his self-chosen arch rival in literary history--Shakespeare...
Margaret Webster, who directed this production, made the most of the balance Shaw got into "Saint Joan." She gets the most out of the moments of heroism and beauty. In the episodes of Shavian preaching, especially the conversations between the Earl of Warwick and the Cauchon, the Bishop who tries Joan, she succeeds in keeping it from deteriorating wholly into a panel discussion...