Word: candida
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...chance. The agents offered a chorus of refusals. "It seems too fragmented and dreamlike to be a good commercial bet," wrote Lurton Blassingame. "We regret that we do not have the time here to read unsolicited fiction," explained James Brown. Candida Donadio & Associates demurred with, "When all is said and done, we felt the manuscript lacked that all-important dramatic tension." And from the office of Knox Burger after two follow-up letters from Ross: "I'm very sorry, but we have no record of having received your MS. or postage.' Kosinski is philosophical about the fact that...
...stay away from the point sale. That suited Puzo, 57, fine. He spent the big payday in his studio and on his backyard tennis court in Bay Shore, L.I. "To me this was a business matter," he says. "I had nothing to do with it. I told my agent Candida Donadio: 'Get it done and tell me when it's finished...
...stroke; in Stamford, Conn. Beginning as a chorus girl in Victor Herbert's Naughty Marietta in 1910, she later moved on to the dramatic stage in both New York and London. Among her notable roles: Portia in The Merchant of Venice, George Bernard Shaw's Candida and Ruth, the jealous wife, in Noel Coward's Blithe Spirit...
...theater does not survive on its masterpieces but between them. Much the same is true of Shaw. His finest works, Major Barbara, Heartbreak House and Pygmalion, are rarely performed. Conversely, scarcely a season passes when the overestimated Saint Joan and Candida do not show up on some theater's docket. One could hardly underestimate The Devil's Disciple. Shaw himself thought that this 1897 play would eventually be considered a "threadbare popular melodrama...
McClusky has substantial theatre experience at Harvard. During this past year she had the title role in "Candida" and was in "Do It Yourself." Because of Harvard's repressive attitude towards combining performing arts with academics, turning creative endeavors into extracurricular activities, McClusky says, she hopes the Summer Ex-will help fill the void by providing an in-depth exposure through actual experience, a cram course for her fall auditions...