Word: stage
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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From an early age Christopher had a yen for the theater. At six, he appeared on the stage, in a civic pageant, and got his first critical notice. Said the local paper: "A lively and comely lad of tender years performed a hornpipe...
...gave up trying to educate himself, and turned to teaching others, then bolted back to the stage and a job with a repertory company. After another interlude at teaching (during which he managed to save ?10), Fry got a job as secretary to a popular songwriter, and wrote some songs himself which, however, failed to become popular. After a turn as a cabaret entertainer, he moved into an abandoned country rectory, together with a writer friend, 100 books and a large barrel of beef, to write a verse play. They finished the barrel, but not the play...
...whole cause of his collapse. Seeing the wife as the enemy, the director mercilessly upbraids and insults her until he learns the truth (which includes his being in love with her). After that, the play dribbles on, nursing the sort of comeback that is trite on the stage and untenable...
...Odets temporizes as well as blunders. Beset by the problem of having to make the play run till 11 o'clock and of wanting to make it run till June, he stages a double retreat from life into show business, filling out the play with colorful backstage detail, phonying it up with facile on-stage emotions. His talent is-flawing again, but from a faucet in dire need of a filter, 'it is depressing to find so much shoddy in a play that can here & there merge deep compassion with burning anger...
Died. Julia Marlowe (real name: Sarah Frances Frost), 84, for almost four decades (1887-1924) one of the brightest stars of the American stage; in Manhattan. Born in northern England of farmer stock, she moved to Kansas with her family at five, played her first stage part in Cincinnati at twelve, reached Broadway stardom in 1887. Best known for her warm, throaty "Juliet" and "Ophelia," she toured the U.S. for years with her husband, famed Actor E. H. Sothern ("Sothern & Marlowe"), made Shakespeare a big box-office attraction. She retired in 1924, lived in seclusion at Manhattan's Plaza...