Word: theaters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, after his first postwar leading part (as Shakespeare's penn'orth king, Richard II), Alec had London's dour critics giddily tapping their umbrellas. The Daily Herald: "This is Shakespeare done in a way that gives luster to the English theater. . . ." The Daily Telegraph: ". . . Admirable economy . . . not a touch nor a tone seems wrong." The consensus: Alec Guinness is the most versatile new actor to appear on the British stage since...
...Funds in the Guinness family (no kin to the stout fellas from Ireland) being tight, when Alec finished Roborough School in the bottomless '30s, he took a ?2-a-week apprenticeship in a London advertising agency. He studied acting at nights and (in the finest tradition of the theater) lived in a garret for a year, mostly on borrowed jam sandwiches and card board soles...
Finally he got a part: as a walk-on at the Playhouse Theater. Within a year he had a bit in John Gielgud's Hamlet and met his wife-to-be, Actress Merula Salaman, in Noah. (She was a tiger, he was a wolf...
...week's end Guinness, the Old Vic and the rest of British theater were momentarily ignored by the press. Oklahoma!, now in its fifth year on Broadway, finally opened in the West...
...slow start, for conservative San Franciscans whose names were newsworthy didn't like to make Caen's kind of news. Without benefit of the pressagents who save legwork for Hollywood and Manhattan gossips, Caen created a cafe society of his own. He haunted nightspots, cocktail parties and theater openings, built an army of volunteer tipsters. Unlike most of his Broadway rivals, Columnist Caen rarely had anything malicious to say about anybody...