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Opening with a shot of the funeral of Dr. John Abbott in the little midwest town of Westport, A Man to Remember shifts quickly to the office where Abbott's lawyer is examining his papers, then proceeds, by means of a long cutback, to tell the story of his life, ending at the moment when the picture begins. John Abbott (Edward Ellis), prototype of thousands of other country doctors in thousands of other Westports, was a humble, hard working general practitioner, too dour to be popular with his patients, too generous to make them pay their bills. Derived from...
With the Wabash running a close second, the most musically celebrated of U. S. rivers is probably the misnamed Swanee.* But during the past year suburban Connecticut's sluggish Saugatuck has meandered into the national consciousness. Last March the arty town of Westport, on its banks, got into an argument with itself about whether or not to become "the U. S. Salzburg" (TIME, March...
...Owen Davis, at Skowhegan); Tomorrow's Sunday (by Philo Higley, at Cohasset); Soubrette (by Jacques Deval, at Ogunquit); Made in Heaven (by Herbert Crocker, at Somerset, Pa.) ; Music at Evening (by Robert Nathan, at White Plains); Dame Nature (by André Birabeau, adapted by Patricia Collinge, at Westport...
Finances. About 20 summer theatres, among them notably those at Westport, Skowhegan, Ogunquit, Dennis, Schenectady and Stockbridge turn in a regular profit. Most of the rest survive on subsidies from rich patrons, tuition fees from amateurs (who pay up to $600 apiece), or both. Summer theatres employed about 500 actors a week in 1934, 800 last year, expect to employ about 1,500 this season. Top salary for stars is about $750 a week, but most willingly take much less. Less celebrated Equity members average $40 a week. Authors whose plays are performed in summer theatres get minute fees, because...
Died. William J. Glackens, 68, famed impressionistic painter and one of the foremost U. S. artists; of a heart attack; in Westport. Conn. Well-known works: Parade, Washington Square...