Word: actress
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Actress Roshan Dhunjiboy, a native of Calcutta, India, who understudied Ophelia with John Gielgud at the close of the war, was named yesterday as lead in the Dramatic Club's production of "Autigone...
Aside from the plot situation, "The Guardsman" has very little wit, though the Brattle Players frequently make it seem so. With them for this show as a guest actress, is Viola Roache, who gives a sturdily humorous performance as the quasi-"Mama" to Miss Farrand. Other highlights of the evening are contributed by Jeanne Tufts as a theater usher, and by Eleanor MacLean as Liesl, the maid. Miss MacLean's name has been on the Brattle programs before, but always in the capacity of wardrobe mistress. If this is a promotion, it is certainly a just one, for her maid...
...conference in Montgomery, Ala. "I felt a nervous dread and horror of this break with so great a power as the United States, but I was ready and willing." In Montgomery she went to supper with Governor Moore ("The old sinner has been making himself ridiculous with that little actress Maggie Mitchell"). She saw a Negro woman sold into slavery: "My very soul sickened." She said to a Northern-born woman: "If you can stand that, no other Southern thing need choke...
Anna Magnani is notably absent from the cast, but there is good evidence that she is not the only actress in Italy. Lea Padovani mixes all the called-for emotions successfully in the role of the poor girl, while rich girl Elli Parvo manages to appear callous and concerned at the same time. Victoria Duse, as the angular hero, casts his lot with the good people at the required moment, and portrays the true heroic metamorphosis...
...Heart of Gold," concerns a starving Broadway actress and her whole starving company, who attempt to open a summer theater in a barn, left to the actress by a philanthropic aunt. The plot evolves around the fun and games the actors have with the sheriff and local motion picture theater owners...