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...SANTA BARBARA, CALIF...
...performers will play in comedies by Moliere and tragedies by Shakespeare when Broadway is visited by two famed repertory companies, the British Old Vic and the Jean-Louis Barrault-Madeleine Renaud company of Paris. For George Bernard Shaw's centennial year there is talk of productions of Major Barbara, The Apple Cart and St. Joan, starring Siobhan McKenna. Eugene O'Neill's posthumous drama A Long Day's Journey Into Night (TIME, Feb. 20) and his Moon for the Misbegotten (TIME, Aug. 4, 1952) will get their long-awaited first Broadway productions...
...first-magnitude stars include Walter Pidgeon, Charles Laughton, Burgess Meredith, Barbara Bel Geddes, Michael Redgrave, Maurice Evans, Claire Bloom, Fredric March, Shelley Winters. Only the season will tell whether the plays and players look as good on the boards as they promise on paper. But with the curtain about to rise on the 1956-57 season, the only thing Broadway seemed to lack was enough theaters to go around for all the shows that producers want...
...Back in London he starred in French Without Tears, Design for Living, No Time for Comedy. Then, to "get a bit of money," Harrison temporarily left the stage for movies (a medium he dislikes), met George Bernard Shaw himself in the course of making Major Barbara...
Married. Winthrop Rockefeller, 44, oil-heir-turned-Arkansas-cattle-baron; and Jeannette Edris Barrager Hartley McDonnell, 37, Seattle real-estate million-heiress; he for the second time (his first: Barbara - "Bobo" - Jievute Paulekiute Sears), she for the fourth (her first: Nate Barrager, 1929 football captain at the University of Southern California); at Hayden Lake, Idaho...