Word: vic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...like Charles Chaplin's self-conscious new film, Limelight, showered Claire, his leading lady, with such adjectives as "poignant," "delightful," "brilliant," "touching," "charming," "perfect." This week in London, Claire is winding up the second month of a triumphant Romeo and Juliet at the historic Old Vic theater. She has been hailed as the most enchanting Juliet in memory...
Claire's fame has far outstripped her fortune. She made around $200 a week as Chaplin's leading lady, and gets only $125 a week from the Old Vic. Like most Londoners, she queues up to take the bus to her job, eats in a small cafe across the street from the Old Vic, and is rarely seen in the Caprice or other flossy restaurants. In her free time she goes to the theater or the ballet, and is reading her way through Dostoevsky, George Moore, the Brontes and Jane Austen. She likes to forage among the stalls...
Beyond next spring, when the Old Vic season ends, Claire has no plans. She may do another movie-if she likes the part. But her heart and eye are steadfast on her first and only love: the theater. Says she: "I couldn't bear to be just a film star. I'm much too ambitious for that...
...that time, few of them still remained at Cambridge. Albert Marre had already gone off to New York, but his wife and the company's leading lady, Jan Farrand, had stayed to finish the last play. Jerry Kilty, a leading actor, was in London, playing with the Old Vic. Robert Fletcher, who did costumes and also acted, was with the New York City Center Ballet, and Robert O'Hearn was with the Sadler Wells Company. Many of the other Brattle alumni had also attached themselves to bigger companies. Jack Kerr and Michael Wager were rehearing "Bernadine," and Fred Gwynne...
...Brattle's company can look back with pride on what Harper's Bazaar called "the new Old Vic." And their amazing number of productions attests to their versatility and enthusiasm. Each member of the company filled in different types of roles, and doubled as stagehands of various types...