Theatre Guild marks forty years shaping Broadway stage
The Theatre Guild led by Theresa Helburn and Lawrence Langner celebrates its 40th Broadway producing season. It helped launch touring, radio and television drama, and has presented over 200 plays winning seven Pulitzers. The group began in 1918 as Washington Square Players, faced early failures, then found success with John Ferguson, shaping modern American theatre.
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Agent Is Busy Middleman in New York Show Biz
Lester Lewis a 44 year old television agent runs a midtown office handling 36 clients. He fields calls from advertisers and networks, negotiates for commercials, auditions actors, signs contracts, and dines with clients, earning about a million dollars in commercials last year.
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Joan Bennett Ends Long Stage Holiday
New York actress Joan Bennett signals return from extended stage break to resume Broadway work amid questions about her next project and venue.
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Chemise Clash Divides Hollywood Style On Showy Garb
Hollywood debates chemises with Sophia Loren defending the look as elegant while Rhonda Fleming, Joan Bennett, and Kim Novak challenge it. The piece also covers Joan Bennett's Broadway return in Love Me Little at the Helen Hayes Theater arriving April 9 with Donald Cook, discussing her long film career and stage comeback.
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Writer Ketti Frings Lived in Fourteen States Before Age 14
Hollywood screenwriter Ketti Frings recalls living in fourteen states by age fourteen due to her salesman father. She cites rootlessness as both a challenge and fuel for her craft, notes the decline of letter writing, and discusses recent success adapting Wolfe’s The Till Wolf to a hit play starring Tony Perkins and her current project, a dramatization of By Love Possessed.
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