The Theatre: Great Katharine

There are those who would as soon miss their own weddings as a Katharine Cornell play. Her yearning, mobile face is the contemporary theatre's testament of...

The Theater: Three-Star Classic

(See Cover) Over their drinks, theater people sometimes play a game: they dream up casts for great plays. With opium-pipe prodigality, they sometimes devise a...

The Theatre: Revival in Manhattan

The Doctor's Dilemma (by George Bernard Shaw, produced by Katharine Cornell) is 35 years old. It was last played on Broadway by Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne...

Theatre: Supreme Test

For never was a story of more woe Than this of Juliet and her Romeo. Katharine Cornell maintained, even while she was performing them, that her rich rôles in...

The Theater: New Play in Manhattan, Dec. 5, 1949

That Lady (by Kate O'Brien; produced by Katharine Cornell) is ornate claptrap laid in 16th Century Spain and starring Katharine Cornell. The lady in question is...

Radio: The Week in Review

The effort of putting on two first-rate shows last week left television with neither ingenuity nor wit for the rest of its schedule. NBC's Producers' Showcase...

The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: May 1, 1939

No Time For Comedy (by S. N. Behrman; produced by Katharine Cornell and the Playwrights Co.) brought Katharine Cornell triumphantly back to Broadway after a...

Books: Without a Script

A GIFT OF JOY by Helen Hayes. 254 pages. Evans-Lippincott. $4.95. In the minds of U.S. theatergoers, both Katharine Cornell and Lynn Fontanne may have an...

Cinema: The New Pictures, Jan. 21, 1957

The New Pictures The Barretts of Wimpole Street (M-G-M). In the past quarter-century, Poet Robert Browning and Poetess Elizabeth Barrett have become almost...

Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Apr. 22, 1935

Flowers of the Forest (by John van Druten; Katharine Cornell, producer). Scientific romancers have for years toyed with the notion of a super-radio which,...