Word: teas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Washington's American Newspaper Women's Club, the Democrats' most eligible spinster, Mary Margaret Truman, 32, got tea and congratulations from her old capital cronies over the serialized publication of her memoirs, Souvenir. A newshen asked whether Margaret and her memoir-penning father had exchanged views on each other's works. Said Margaret: "He does his writing. I do mine." Meanwhile, two Hollywood studios were wooing Margaret with propositions to play herself in film versions of her short young life and high old times...
...Tea and Empathy, the Drumbeats and Song production for 1956, is almost a small theatrical miracle. While it manages to be a sophisticated spoof of subjects ranging from modern poetry to Wall Street, it still remains a pleasant and friendly musical. And though the production has all the appealing high spirits of an amateur show, there is nothing amateurish about its music and staging. Fortunately too, just about all the actors make good use of their fine material...
...times he is a little too jocular for an exalted writer, while Lee Jeffries and James Spiegler make an appealing romantic couple. And another couple, played by Betsy Nelson and Fred Mueller, is funny enough to stop the show. In addition, the direction of Hugh Fortmiller helps to make Tea and Empathy into a show at least as good as many professional musicals...
Anderson is the author of "Tea and Sympathy," and Oenslager designed sets for the current Broadway play "Janus...
Anderson graduated magna cum laude from here in 1939. In 1954, his "Tea and Sympathy" won the New York Critics Award. He also wrote "All Summer Long" in the same year...