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Saint Joan is one of Shaw's best under the direction of Margaret Webster. Uta Hagen leads in this brilliant Plymouth performance...
...Margaret Webster, who directed this production, made the most of the balance Shaw got into "Saint Joan." She gets the most out of the moments of heroism and beauty. In the episodes of Shavian preaching, especially the conversations between the Earl of Warwick and the Cauchon, the Bishop who tries Joan, she succeeds in keeping it from deteriorating wholly into a panel discussion...
Shaw, Miss Webster, and her accomplished company all stumble lamentably in the last act, an epilogue in which Shaw invokes souls of the dead and the alive into a dream sequence, the object of which is to show the audience that the world is still not ready for saints, no matter how much it admires the dead ones. It is as impossible theatrically as the infamous Don Juan in Hell Scene and considering the perfect ways in which the first scene of Act III ends, I can't help regretting that Miss Webster didn't show more restraint than...
...Golfer Betsy Rawls, 23, of Austin, Texas, the Women's National Open, with a 72-hole total score of 293; in Atlanta. In third place with a 299: veteran Professional Mildred ("Babe") Zaharias, who only last month helped cure Winner Rawls of a fast-developing slice. ¶ Choate Webster, 26, of Lenapah, Okla. and his horse Popcorn, permanent possession of the $5,000 Sam Jackson silver trophy; at the Pendleton, Ore. Roundup. For the third year in a row, Cowpoke Webster topped the field in steer roping, calf roping, and bulldogging, became the first cowboy to retire...
Across the street, where Epstein's Drugstore now stands, was an inn that housed President George Washington during his visit to Joan Hancock, Harvard 1754. Later Daniel Webster opened his law office in another building on the same site...