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Poison Speech. Minor roles at the Oxford Playhouse followed. Claire tried out for Webster's The White Devil, which was being put in production by Michael Benthall and Robert Helpmann. Says Benthall: "Suddenly, this little girl appeared and did the poison speech from Romeo and Juliet. She looked enchanting. More important, she had extraordinary technical equipment." The cast was already filled, but Benthall and Helpmann invented a new walk-on part so that they could keep an eye on Claire. When they took over the 1948 Shakespeare season at Stratford-on-Avon, Claire went along...
...their casts they boasted William Devlin, Margare Webster, Eva LeGallience, John Carradine, Helmut Dantine, Philip Borneuf, Ruth Ford, Nancy Walker, Sarah Allgood, Betty Field, Claire Luce, Jessica Tandy, Hume Gronyn and many more. Sometimes their personalities clashed with those of the stars. In one play, Luise Rainer threw a glass of water at Bryant Haliday. Later, she told him "If I had six months I could teach you to make love." Yet often Brattle and its guests would get along quite well. The late Sarah Allgood stayed up all night with the cast, guzzling gin and singing Irish ballads...
...Webster Groves...
...anthropological problem, however, and science may find the Hanoverians an even more fascinating study than the Peruvians, Pueblos, or Polynesians. Anthropologist Robert Redfield says that the typical primitive folk society is "small, isolated, nonliterate, and homogeneous, with a strong sense of group solidarity." No less an authority than Daniel Webster called Dartmouth small...
Murder, arson and rape, if you like, but apathy at a match like that of Saturday! Really! Where did you learn to smear in such a fashion? Charles K. Webster, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University...