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This year's show will not go on tour during vacation, but will stay in Cambridge for a two-week run. This is part of the new economizing program of President Alan F. Winslow '47 and Vice-President Benamin Gaylord '49, who plan to finance the entire production out of its own profits...
...London, where a busy summer had already spawned half a dozen hits, the new season began briskly with what looked like another success by prolific Terence Rattigan (The Winslow Boy, O Mistress Mine). Called Playbill, it was a program of two one-acters: The Browning Version, a study of an embittered schoolmaster, and A Harlequinade, which pokes fun at highbrow theater. Rattigan, whose annual royalties pile up to about $100,000, also has a new drama about Alexander the Great scheduled for a winter opening, and is working on a comedy...
...excuse not to show British pictures. He thought that it was "retaliation, perhaps only subconscious," for British restrictions on Hollywood films. "Until the trouble blows over," Korda announced last week, he will not release in the U.S. four films already scheduled for showing: Bonnie Prince Charlie, Fallen Idol, The Winslow Boy and The Small Back 'Room...
...ever heard of. In his green corduroy jacket, Mr. Fisher could pitch horseshoes and he could square-dance. But he also knew something about symphonies and poetry. On the walls of the classroom, he hung reproductions of paintings by artists Bunk did not know: Cezanne, Bellini, Rouault, Rousseau, Winslow Homer. And on the blackboard, he wrote things like "The best portion of a good man's life, according to Wordsworth, is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love...
...once, even the critics agreed. Last week 17 out of 21 Broadway reviewers voted Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire the best new play of the season. Mister Roberts got two votes, Command Decision and Medea one each. The critics then picked Terence Rattigan's The Winslow Boy as the best foreign play to reach Broadway this season. Neither playwright was on hand to take a bow: Rattigan was home in England; Williams, whose Glass Menagerie had won the prize in 1944-45, was vacationing in Italy...