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...woman of the year." Also huzzah'd: Dean Virginia Gildersleeve, 68, of Manhattan's Barnard College; All-But-Abstract Painter Georgia O'Keeffe, 58; Choreographer Agnes de Mille, 36; Novelist I. A. R. Wylie (The Young In Heart), 60; Johns Hopkins Psychiatrist Esther Loring Richards, 60; Shakespearean Actress-Director Margaret Webster, 40; Radio Program Director Margaret Cuthbert, 52; New York Times Editorialist AnneO'Hare McCormick, sixtyish; International Business Machines Vice President Ruth Leach, 29; and New Jersey's Congresswoman Mary T. Norton...
...Mistress Mine is the comedy the Lunts played in London last season under the no less Shakespearean title of Love in Idleness (TIME, Jan. 1, 1945). It tells of an attractive, broke widow who has been living in gay, sumptuous sin with a wartime British Cabinet Minister. Then her priggish, pinko 17-year-old son (well played by Dick Van Patten) comes home after five years at school in Canada. He forces his mother to choose between him and her lover and (possibly because a show must keep going until 11 o'clock) she chooses...
...fairly lively evening. If the hey-nonny-nonny sometimes breathed a desperate gaiety, most of the melodrama was pretty sound theater. And there were snatches of much-loved poetry (Daffodils that come before the swallow dares, and take the winds of March with beauty. . .). Most Shakespearean in reciting his lines (though he fell short in acting) was Actor Daniell. But word-spitting, eye-flashing, more-sulphurous-than-Shakespearean Florence Reed (The Shanghai Gesture) seemed to have the most...
Died. Henry Ainley, 66, London matinee idol of the early 1900s, considered one of England's handsomest men, ardent Shakespearean who acted in popular plays "to permit the luxury of losing on Shakespeare"; after long illness; in London...
...Winter's Tale" has some humorous episodes, competent acting, and very beautiful settings, but with such great products of the Shakespearean pen as "Henry IV" and "King Lear" begging for revival, it seems trivially inauspicious for a Theatre Guild production...