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...life and family confidences, opened on Broadway one night in the spring of 1945, and since that moment the front rank of U.S. playwriting has been wherever Tennessee Williams stood. Laurette Taylor, making a comeback as Amanda, became the first and greatest of the actresses-Jessica Tandy, Maureen Stapleton, Barbara Bel Geddes, Geraldine Page, Margaret Leighton-to play one of Williams' incomparable theater roles for women...
...Guns of August, by Barbara W. Tuchman. The fateful first month of World War I as a drama in which every actor had rehearsed his part for years and yet turned it into a shambles...
...invitation after hearing from friends of Mezzo Bumbry's triumphs in Europe. The daughter of a St. Louis railway clerk, Grace Bumbry began her career the way American Negroes often do: singing in the choir of a colored Methodist church. She studied with Lotte Lehmann in Santa Barbara, Calif. But her career did not really get under way until she took the $1,000 in prize money she won as Metropolitan Opera Auditions finalist and departed in 1959 for Europe. There she got opera engagements in Paris, Brussels and Basel, last summer became the first Negro ever to sing...
...thane who would be king, interprets the role in a cloppish manner that might be described as early Kirk Douglas. Disconcertingly, he even looks like Kirk Douglas, but with red hair. And his "Tomorrow and tomorrow" creeps at a petty pace. But the production is redeemed by Barbara Jefford...
...Guns of August, by Barbara W. Tuchman. The fateful first month of World War I as a drama in which every actor had rehearsed his part for years and yet turned into a shambles...