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Part of that may stem from the play's lineal parentage. It surely includes Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio, that symbiotic study of lonely spirits in stultifying small towns seeking the mind's freedom and the heart's release. Director Vivian Matalon has sensed that aspect of the play, and his cast, wondrous in its ensemble excellence, embodies it. Whether one goes to the theater to laugh, to cry, to muse or to learn, Morning's at Seven satisfies all four appetites. -T. E. Kalem

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Close Relations | 4/21/1980 | See Source »

Ford populates her 509-page book with imaginary characters who might have been rented from Dickens: Vivian Fein Quales, Jason Seldom, Basil Prout, Lance Loomer, Dr. Madora Waxley and Eden Ceilings worth, among others. Some of her advice could have been lifted from a phrase book written in Taiwan, for example, changing the subject during an unpleasant conversation: "Did you know Cecily Margolis is getting braces, along with her oldest, Agatha...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Mode Code | 3/10/1980 | See Source »

...DIED. Vivian Vance, 66, actress-comedian known to millions of TV viewers as Ethel Mertz, Lucille Ball's best friend and neighbor, on the long running and even longer rerunning show I Love Lucy; of cancer; in Belvedere, Calif. A star in Broadway musicals, the Kansas-born blond was in semiretirement when recruited by Ball and Desi Arnaz to play Ethel-the role she played from 1951 to 1956. "After a while," she said, "you're not sure who you are-Ethel Mertz or Vivian Vance." When cast as Lucy's sidekick on the 1960s The Lucy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Aug. 27, 1979 | 8/27/1979 | See Source »

...team of Jane Fayer, who has been hampered by shoulder problems, Laura Orgel, Belinda Williams and Susan Vivian contributed a victory in the meet's opening event, the 400-yd. medley relay, and Harvard never looked back...

Author: By James G. Hershberg, | Title: Joel Sets Pair of Records As Swimmers Win, 86-43 | 11/29/1978 | See Source »

Bill's wife, Vivian Disinger, 46: "There were maybe a dozen couples I know that got married the same year we did, and we're the only ones still married. People say they still believe in marriage, and most of those folks got married again, but I don't know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Voices from the Heartland | 10/16/1978 | See Source »

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