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...insidiously balmy Roman spring, Karen Stone, past 50, discovers that her life is slipping away. She has been a successful actress and great beauty; now, after a ludicrous stab at playing Juliet, she is through with the stage and, even worse, aware that her beauty is dead. Lonely and anxious, she is taken in tow by a ravenous old contessa who supplies her with "beautiful" young men as escorts. Mrs. Stone, good American that she is, pays them as expected but politely declines their ultimate services. But when she meets Paolo, a gigolo with the face of an angel...
...Burning Bright, and Producer Cheryl Crawford has Tennessee (A Streetcar Named Desire) Williams' The Rose Tattoo on her schedule. By the time the season is half over, Broadway will probably be seeing Hollywood's Louis Calhern (in King Lear) and Olivia de Havilland (in Romeo and Juliet), besides such stage faithfuls as Dame Edith Evans, Flora Robson, Jessica Tandy, Lilli Palmer, and possibly Tallulah Bankhead...
...great works down to the purely melodic passages") and expertly inflated popular selections. Working on the brisk premise that the lengthy development of themes found in the classics "is intended for musicians and confuses a lot of other people," Kostelanetz was able to hack Tchaikovsky's Romeo and Juliet Overture from its usual running time of 16 minutes to less than five...
...Scherman conducting; Columbia, 1 side LP). U.S. Composer Dello Joio (TIME, May 22) manages to write charmingly and effectively for the harp without sounding too much like either Debussy or Ravel. On the other side of the record, David Diamond's Music for Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" sounds like little more than warmed-over Prokofiev. Both performances and recordings: good...
Died. Jane Cowl, 65, oldtime glamorous Broadway star (Romeo and Juliet) turned Hollywood character actress (The Secret Fury), playwright (coauthor of such hits as Smilin' Through and Lilac Time), wartime co-director of Manhattan's Stage Door Canteen; of cancer; in Santa Monica, Calif...