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...More than anything, they needed the knack of playing together as a team. This year they seem to be doing just that, even while utilizing the highly individualistic talents of a superstar and the remarkable performance of a rookie. The star is Earl ("the Pearl") Monroe. The rookie is Westley Unseld, 22, a relatively small (6 ft. 7½ in.) center playing his first year in the N.B.A...
Died. Henrietta Remsen Meserole Manney Westley (professionally: Helen Westley), 63, veteran character actress; in Middlebush, NJ. Dour-faced, fire-eyed and testy-tongued, she specialized in playing disreputable old wrecks. She was one of the founders of the Theatre Guild. She was the fifth famed character actress to die in recent weeks (the others: Dame Marie Tempest, May Robson, Edna May Oliver, Laura Hope Crews...
...moot point among theatrical greybeards. Warner Bros., rather than classifying Mrs. Carter, merely add another volume to the screen's countless observations on show business. Out of a welter of stock theatrical characters, only Rains's David Belasco and a blustering boardinghouse keeper played by Helen Westley emerge entertainingly. Claude Rains draws a penetrating bead on the egotistical Broadway impresario. Helen Westley's corned-beef-&-cabbage exterior provides many a welcome guffaw...
...Neil to play his insanely jealous Duchess. It had three charming, flounce-skirted children to play the Praslin daughters - Virginia Weidler, June Lockhart, Ann Todd. It had Richard Nichols to play the Duke's pathetic, lovable little son. It had such veteran actors as Walter Hampden, Helen Westley, Fritz Leiber (very sinister as a saintly father confessor). It had décors gorgeous enough to have come straight out of a cinemactor's dream home. Its historical accuracy was as literal, multiplex, unflagging and fatiguing as the iterations of an adding machine. It had Rachel Field...
...works in association with other producers, accepts backing from Billy Rose, "sponsors" plays in which it has no producing interest. Today it is also under new management. For nearly 20 years six directors-Lawyer Lawrence Langner, Scene Designer Lee Simonson, Banker Maurice Wertheim, Actress Helen Westley, Director Philip Moeller, Theatre-Mind Theresa Helburn-ran the Guild, admitting but one newcomer: Alfred Lunt. Last year the board voted all power to Langner and Helburn. Judging by this season's results, two bosses are better than seven...