Word: version
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Manhattan, the American Theater Wing presented its annual Antoinette Perry awards ("Tonys"), Broadway's version of the Oscar. Chief recipients: for distinguished performances in dramatic plays-Audrey Hepburn*(Ondine) and David Wayne (Teahouse of the August Moon); best performances in musicals-Dolores Gray (Carnival in Flanders) and Alfred Drake (Kismet); outstanding director-Alfred Lunt (Ondine); outstanding play-Teahouse of the August Moon; outstanding musical-Kismet...
...performance was a decided improvement, but hardly a smash. The story line was draggy, and the score was short of the big arias Italian audiences love. Most startling of all, perhaps, was the reform and regeneration of daughter Salome, who, in Mortari's version, winds up trying to save her poor victim. John the Baptist, and earning her own salvation...
Perkins has many inherited traditions to help him. Mr. Coolidge, the first House master, imported a democratic version of the Oxford High table for the House. High Table now meets every other Monday night; the tower is lighted at six-thirty, ten seniors (invited in rotation) dine formally with the master, tutor, and guests on a raised dais at one end of the hall. Perkins puts his own touch to this institution as well as adding a weekly session of cucumber sandwiches presided over by Mrs. Perkins. There is a standing invitation for all House members...
...years ago, Top Banana could convulse New York audiences with a musical parody of television's own Milton Berle. Today, the movie version is kicking a dead horse and doing a bad job of it. Top Banana is the answer to those who think Hollywood can best reproduce Broadway by shoving a camera in front of the stage on opening night. The film shows that even with wide screens, exact reproductions are likely to look shoddy when compared with the original...
When Dietrich closes her eyes, lights up a long cigarette, and croaks something about being a bad girl, she does more for vice than Prohibition or the Anti-Saloon League. In Seven Sinners she in 1940's version of the Wicked Woman and once again makes the occupation seem more than rewarding. Seven Sinners is an extremely enjoyable concoction of Asiatic intrigue and adventure; it is also a natural for Miss Dietrich's unusual virtues...