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...brass band blared out the Blue Danube. G.I.s and Germans jammed merry-go-rounds and snap-the-whips at the Theresien-Platz, theaters and the opera in Prinzregenten-Strasse. As throughout Germany, excellent performances were played to jampacked audiences in roofless theaters. U.S. plays were a fad. Thornton Wilder's fantasy, The Skin of Our Teeth, (TIME, Nov. 30, 1942), was playing to full houses in Munich (as in London). Even Munich's Schaubuden, satirical little theaters like Am Platzl, whose stock in trade is poking fun at politicians, thrived again. Their current butt: the Military Government...
Theatre Guild on the Air (Sun. 10 p.m., ABC). Dorothy McGuire and Author Thornton Wilder in Our Town...
...Short & the Long. Surveying the histories of several thousand psychoanalyzed patients, Psychoanalyst Joseph Wilder of Manhattan recently reported that there were few "cures," but "good results" (i.e., substantial improvement) in some 30-40% of the patients. About 20% of neurotics snap out of their funk without psychiatric treatment. Dr. Wilder's most significant finding: "brief psychotherapy," i.e., 30 to 40 sessions, produces just as good results as the prolonged orthodox treatment...
...names on the billboards were big and bright. A few of them: Dame May Whitty, Gloria Swanson, Gregory Peck, Thornton Wilder, Diana Barrymore, Helen Hayes & daughter Mary MacArthur, Gladys Cooper & daughter Sally Pearson, Edward Everett Horton, Gertrude Lawrence, Ann Corio, Jane Cowl, Lilian Harvey, Anton Dolin, Ginger Rogers, Dick Powell, Ruth Chatterton, Mady Christians, Faye Emerson Roosevelt, Victor Moore, Maurice Evans...
Thomas G. Wilder...