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...dress rehearsal of the Harvard Dramatic Club's production of "Ever the Twain" by Lennox Robinson will be honored on Sunday afternoon, December 10, by the presence of two distinguished figures of the theatre. They are Miss Francesca Bruning, leading feminine star of the successful comedy, "One Sunday Afternoon", and Leo Bulgakov, director of that play. Mr. Bulgakov is also well known for his work at the Moscow Art Theatre. He and Miss Bruning will meet the cast and the director, Alistair Cooke, after the rehearsal, and then discuss with them various points about the acting. After this discussion, everyone...
...What am I going to do? All my audience is out celebrating repeal," said Francesca Bruning in an interview with the CRIMSON last night. Miss Bruning is now appearing at the Shubert Theatre in "One Sunday Afternoon." When the wide awake reporter suggested, "We might go out and celebrate too," Miss Bruning asked: "Will you get my manager pie-eyed for me?" The actress said she had already been out with several Law School men, and had found them "very cute with their big vocabularies and little brief cases. But Business School students are too fast for me--yes, much...
...Francesca said she is "really a very good little girl. In fact, I never, never drink, and I just detest speakeasies." Asked how she knew that she detested speakeasies when she never drank, Miss Bruning appeared flustered and finally said she "had been to a 'speak' with a thirsty friend once a long time ago." Quick to change the subject, she added, "I love to travel, especially in airplanes; and when I'm on the ground I like to dance and swim...
...Author is only five years old as a U. S. citizen, as a writer, 15, as a person, 33. Known to the census as Mrs. Bernard D. N. Grebanier, fellow-Sicilians remember Frances Winwar as Francesca Vinciguerra. Born in Taormina, where her great-uncle was caretaker of the Graeco-Roman amphitheatre, she went to the U. S. with her family when she was eight. A shining advertisement for Manhattan's public schools, College of the City of New York and Columbia University, she speaks seven languages, has published a translation of Boccaccio's Decameron, three historical novels...
...Sunday Afternoon"--48th Street Theatre. A play about a middle Western dentist and his love. Vivid and amusing with Francesca Bruning and Lloyd Nolan...