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...Hartford, Conn. Melvin S. Hathaway Margaret Chamberlain, Hartford, Conn. David Hodgdon Edith Russell, Boston Guy, Holman Bulah Ratliff, New York John W. Huling Barbara Sherry, Worcester Morton B. Jackson Mary Brown, Cleveland Richard Jackson Martha Turner, Cambridge William P. Jacobs Alice Corregan, West Roxbury Marc Jaffe Marjorie Walker, Philadelphia Webster N. Jones Edith Small, Chestnut Hill Albert C. Joyce Jean Sugiue, Salem Eugene D. Keith Alice Coxe, Tenafly, N. J. Graham McD. Kelly Pearl Raining, Needham William H. J. Kennedy Barbara Lydon, Brookline Edward F. Kilroy Doris MacDonald, Utica, N. Y. Owen W. Kite Arleen McHugh, Trenton, N. J. Marvin...
Blue-eyed, reddish-haired Director Webster was born-"a small tangerine-colored object"-34 years ago in Manhattan. On both sides she comes of English actors : famed Dame May Whitty is her mother, Shakespearean Actor Ben Webster her father. Acting since childhood, Margaret Webster slid into directing because the field was less crowded, but admits she prefers acting. Though she professionally directed a score of plays in England, it was in the U. S. three years ago, with Evans' Richard II, that she first directed Shakespeare. Directing plans for next year: Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard. Some...
...Margaret Webster finds Broadway much more exciting than London, though she protests that Broadway still reveals "an awful hangover from what the Shuberts did in 1910." Her favorite U. S. directors are Guthrie McClintic (Mamba's Daughters), Herman Shumlin (The Little Foxes), but she. has no desire to be, as they are, a producer as well. Acting, directing, adapting plays, writing a book about her family keep her pleasantly occupied...
Franklin Roosevelt, the Beards find, combines "in his thinking the severe economic analysis of the Hamilton-Webster tradition with the humanistic democracy of the parallel tradition. Whatever his merits or demerits as statesman or administrator, he eventually gave expression to the two most powerful tendencies in American history...
...rare as "impartial" politicians. The Beard style, with its heavy clattering of cliches, lightened by an occasional urbane understatement or neatly turned irony, gives a skilful impression of impartiality. The impartial Beards' smartest trick is ventriloquizing moot points through historical Charlie McCarthies: James Madison, Thomas Jefferson, Daniel Webster...