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Arthur Kopit, Alan Schneider, John Simon, and Jerome Weidman will discuss "The Role of Criticism in the American Theatre" at 8 p.m. tonight in Leverett Old Library...
...STOUT (President) ABE BURROWS ELIZABETH JANEWAY HERBERT MITGANG LEO ROSTEN JEROME WEIDMAN THEODORE H. WHITE HERMAN WOUK The Authors League of America, Inc. New York City...
...trouble is that Federov, an unperceptive man, is not a very good muser. His memories have an odd qualify of seeming secondhand, as if he had anthologized them from Jerome Weidman's up-from-the-Lower-East-Side novels-he even contrives to appropriate the durable episode in which the poor Jewish boy waits tables at a party for rich, contemptuous Yalies and their glossy dates, hardens his honest heart and resolves...
...names in the Denishawn Dancers. In its 16 years the company won grand acclaim the world over. The Shawns were among the first to create ballets drawn from American themes. Their chain of Denishawn dance schools groomed such prime movers of modern dance as Martha Graham, Doris Humphrey, Charles Weidman. Their proudest accomplishment, individually and together, was to help vanquish the puritanical mistrust with which most Americans had traditionally viewed the dance, to make their art part of the nation's cultural life...
...Jerome Weidman, who wrote Fiorello!, has written a courtroom play called The Ivory Tower about a poet like Ezra Pound who is tried for treason for making wartime broadcasts telling American troops to lay down their arms (November). Franchot Tone stars in Bicycle Ride to Nevada, an adaptation of Barnaby Conrad's novel Dangerfield, which deals with a Nobel prizewinner novelist who has slid down his 50s into alcoholism (Sept. 26). Conrad was once literary secretary to Sinclair Lewis. Edward Albee has adapted The Ballad of the Sad Café, Carson McCullers' dark-visionary study of human grotesques...