Word: lillian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Giant Abstraction. Julie would be the last to agree with the Barrymore boast -but the dare was exciting. Last week on Broadway she took it. She opened as Joan of Arc in Lillian Hellman's adaptation of The Lark from the French of Jean Anouilh. Her previous roles, no matter how complex, had kept within the limits of "colloquial drama." She had played people of life size in a theater of the norm, and she had only to cut herself to make her characters bleed. Joan, however, was not merely a human being, into whose feelings an actress...
...Steel Hour (Wed. 10 p.m., CBS). Lillian Roth in Outcast...
...events leading to the burning of Joan of Arc involves considerable audacity. Yet the current version, The Lark, justifies the attempt. With beguiling Julie Harris in the title role, The Lark is a startling, modernistic interpretation. More important, it is conceived from a distinctly American view-point. Lillian Hellman has skillfully adapted Jean Anouiln's material into a revealing portrait of a high spirited Joan...
...solution." As Royall talked, the delegates buzzed with surprise. "The speech had value in that it will create almost unanimous dissent," snapped a member of the state committee later. Royall's thinking on education, said another, was that "of the oxcart, not the jet plane, age." Mrs. Lillian Ashe, president of New York City's United Parents Associations, gave a shot of adrenalin to the stock solution: "The assumption that there is only a limited amount of money for education and that we must do the best we can within these limitations does not square with the tremendous...
...Lillian's zoom to success is not surprising. She has looks, a brassy voice that -when anybody cares to listen-is both true and spirited, and she can play trombone. The rock 'n' roll fad has probably whirled her up faster than otherwise would have happened, but her sudden good fortune has not made her cocky. "If anything goes off in this business," she says. I'll go back to driving a truck...