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Sometime Lay Evangelist Jimmy Carter is not the only member of his Southern Baptist family to plunge into religious work. His younger sister Ruth Carter Stapleton, 46, has been on the Gospel trail for nine years both preaching and practicing what she calls "healing of memories." She works not only with her fellow Protestants but with Roman Catholics as well; 5,000 of them attended one of her healing sessions in Atlantic City last October. She also conducted spiritual workshops in 75 other U.S. cities last year, as well as in Indonesia, Malaysia, Japan and England...
Except for Our Town, there is no play better known to Americans than The Glass Menagerie; the audience becomes a casting director and makes rather exacting judgments. Maureen Stapleton is not quite right for Amanda. She is incapable of conveying the proper air of gentility, and she lacks somewhat the valiancy and authority Amanda should possess...
...Maureen. Thank God, she can cope with anything, just by being a bundle of nerves," drawled Playwright Tennessee Williams, 61, after watching Maureen Stapleton star in the umpteenth production of his masterwork, The Glass Menagerie. Though Williams criticized...
Broadway's Circle in the Square Theater as a "gymnasium," New York Times Critic Clive Barnes called the revival of the 1944 work "magnificent." After offering praise to Stapleton and Cast Members Rip Torn, Pamela Payton-Wright and Paul Rudd, Tennessee expressed some surprise at Menagerie's longevity. "They teach it in college now, and everybody approaches it as though it were a place of worship," he observed. "Frankly, I fall asleep at times...
...Still, Stapleton's damnable dog, trained to kill, roams menacingly over the picturesque moors and prehistoric ruins that the art department enthusiastically ran up on the Fox back lot. Moreover, Director Sidney Lanfield was careful to keep his fog machines rolling, never permitting the sun to rise on this peculiar corner of the British Empire. The result, for viewers of a certain age anyway, is a sort of double-edged nostalgia: not merely for two beloved characterizations but for a whole vanished style of moviemaking, in which menacing shadows lay over every scene and divinely dumb people blandly insisted...