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...June of 1940, Barbara joined Actor-Producer Alexander Kirkland's summer stock at Clinton, Conn, as an apprentice. Between walk-on appearances and rounds of scene painting, she studied the Stanislavsky acting technique with Coach Lee Strasberg. "We'd be teapots, poison ivy and other things, for practice," says Barbara, "and I just loved it." She played bits with Ethel Barrymore, Sinclair Lewis and other visiting stars, and at the end of the season she even got a fat part of her own-Amy in Little Women. Says Barbara: "I got damn good notices...
...with military history. Veterans of the Pacific war may be anachronistically edified, if somewhat surprised, to hear American Guerrilla's naval officers speaking of General Douglas MacArthur with something close to veneration. They also may be heartened to learn that the Leyte landings were as simple as a walk-on. In the film's climax, the rumble of distant naval guns disperses a Japanese patrol that is closing in on the guerrillas. "MacArthur?" asks Micheline. "He said he'd return," replies Tyrone. Moments later, led by G.I. columns stepping briskly to a Sousa march, the jeep-borne...
...Metropolitan Opera is back in town, and Harvard men are again signing for walk-on parts at $1 a night. Each evening about 20 students don tights and helmets, push onto a crowded stage, and burble background noises. The Crimson sent a reporter to the scene for an eyewitness report of their activities...
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...
Even the Tributary Theatre's capable production, however, cannot escape the inexperienced troupe's inevitable handicap of poor playing in the walk-on parts and even in several of the principals. Guards and messengers border on the amateurish, and Helen Stone's portrayal of Queen Gertrude adds nothing to the play but disappointment. A badly-spoken Rosencrantz also serves to brand the performance as experimental and Bostonian...