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...third year as the most ambitious, most professional of the off-Broadway houses. While not rich, it has both means and know-how. Among its angels are Rodgers & Hammerstein, Lindsay & Grouse, Elia Kazan; among its actors have been Montgomery Clift, Nancy Walker, Hume Cronyn, Jessica Tandy, Farley Granger, Maureen Stapleton; among its directors, John Houseman, Sidney Lumet, Tyrone Guthrie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Old Play in Manhattan, Apr. 16, 1956 | 4/16/1956 | See Source »

Mixed in with the Christmas cards received last week by Rudy Stapleton, Democratic chairman of Fulton County, Ohio, was a letter of more than usual interest. It said: "To enable the selection of the delegates from Ohio, and thus qualify them for attendance at the convention, I will allow my name to be used as the favorite son to whom you and others so disposed will be initially pledged." The letter was signed by Ohio's Governor Frank Lausche...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Serious? | 12/26/1955 | See Source »

...young man was very attentive to his mother. He lugged her heavy suitcases to the counter at Denver's Stapleton Airfield, and stood by while she checked in on United Air Lines Flight 629, bound for Portland, Ore. The three bags, a bulky, battered suitcase secured by two web straps, a briefcase and a smaller suitcase, weighed 87 Lbs. -37 Lbs. over the limit allowed each passenger. When the ticket agent told her she would have to pay $27 for the excess baggage, the mother, Mrs. Daisie King, turned to her son and said, "Thirty-seven...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: The Christmas Present | 11/28/1955 | See Source »

...reason to expect some pretty good entertainment last week. On the bill was a sampling of Musicomedienne Gwen Verdon (TIME, June 13), one of the most accomplished hip-flippers in the song-and-dance business; a play by Eugene O'Neill; a dramatic role filled by Maureen Stapleton, one of Broadway's more gifted emoters; a new version of Kitty Foyle, that nostalgic, bittersweet tale of the between-wars world; and a dramatization of a true adventure from the life of former French Premier Pierre Mendès-France. But after going through the TV meat grinder, none...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Week in Review | 7/25/1955 | See Source »

...Mystery. Actress Maureen Stapleton also stumbled on the hazard of a bad play presented over NBC's Philco Playhouse (Sun. 9:30 p.m., E.D.T.). Incident in July is the poor second best of Novelist-Playwright Calder Willingham, who adapted his own novel, End as a Man, a couple of seasons ago into an unexpected Broadway hit. Incident is about a married woman, incapable of having children, who pours her maternal affection on a 19-year-old boy, causes a painful scandal, finally realizes that she ought to adopt a child. The writing was aimless, the plot pointless, and Actress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Week in Review | 7/25/1955 | See Source »

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