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FUCILLO, Director of Publications MAX MICHAELS. Manager PROGRAM WEEK OF OCTOBER 24, 1960 Harriet Parsons Charles Hollerith, Jr., Paul Vroom, William Dean present CONSTANCE JOYCE PEGGY CUMMINGS REDMAN WOOD in “THE RAPE OF THE BELT” a new comedy by BENN W. LEVY Also starring JOHN EMERY with JOSEPH PHILIP PAT BOVA BOSCO NYE and NYDIA WESTMAN Settings and Lighting by Costumes Designed by Paul Morrison Michael Travis Miss Cummings’ and Miss Redman’s Gowns Executed by Pierre Balmain Incidental Music by Sol Kaplan Directed by ALAN SCHNEIDER Produced in association with Spice Wood Enterprises ALLEN BUICK CO. BUICK • OPEL • LARK 99 HARVARD ST. BROOKLINE (between Coolidge Corner and Brookline Village) 3 Boston’s most illustrious round-the-clock foot fashions Guild House Poetry in Shoes Tremont at West, downtown and 37 Newbury Street, Back Bay CAST (in order of appearance) Hera PEGGY WOOD Zeus ..... JOHN EMERY Hippobomene PAT NYE Theseus JOSEPH BOVA Heracles PHILIP BOSCO ( Continued) Portrait in black Brocade costume Bell coat over peek- a-boo neckline sheath $55.00 QUINCY tfiuieStbvt WELLESLEY 4 Oh £tdfle- with the CAST CONSTANCE CUMMINGS (Antiope) is a native-born American, who scored in the theatre and films on both sides of the Atlantic. While at first her stage career followed the conventional lines involving struggle for recognition she eventually won her way through to star- dom and has remained there ever since. In the beginning she arrived in New York from Seattle, Washington, at the age of 16 and won her way into the chorus of a musical comedy. Wasting no time, she ambitiously accepted an un- derstudy role in a George Kaufman play. Then, on the one occasion whep she took over for the ailing principal, she dazzled a Hollywood scout into a lead contract for a Samuel Goldwyn picture. Two weeks later there came a black moment when she was replaced by Loretta Young. Matters brightened considerably, how- ever, when she secured the ingenue lead in a Walter Huston film at Columbia Pictures. This was followed by a studio contract and a succession of films, which saw her on loan-out to other studios at a considerable premium. Unable to obtain a release from her film contract to re- turn to the stage, she finished out her term and came back to the theatre — this time in England — in a Vincent Lawrence success called “Sour Grapes.” Equally successful was her first Broad- way play, Samson Raphaelson’s “Accent on Youth.” Subsequently, with her car- eer in high gear she appeared in many other plays including; “Madame Bov- ary,” “Goodbye Mr. Chips,” The Petri- fied Forest,” “Skylark,” “Clutterbuck,” “Country Girl,” “The Shrike” and “Ly- sistrata.” She also played Juliet and St. Joan at the Old Vic. Her films include, among others, “Blythe Spirit” and the current “Battle of the Sexes.” On radio and television, among the many parts which were projected to public acclaim, were those in “St. Joan,” Hedda Gabler,” “Craig’s Wife” and Shakespeare’s Cleo- patra. JOYCE REDMAN (Hippolyte) is one of the most sought-after actresses in Eng- land and many Americans who saw her in her innumerable appearances there Distinctive Clothes returned home singing her praises. In America, there were only three occa- and Accessories sions when her considerable talents For the well-dressed woman could be evaluated. In 1947 she appeared as Abigail in “Duet for Two Hands” at 1216 BOYLSTON STREET CHESTNUT HILL the Boothe Theatre and the following- MASSACHUSETTS year played the role of Anne Boleyn in ASpinwall 7-0784 “Anne of a Thousand Days,” opposite (Continued on Page 11) 5 SEE OUR EXCLUSIVE COLLECTION OF MAGNIFICENT FRENCH IMPORTS AND FASHIONS BY THE OUTSTANDING AMERICAN DESIGNERS 1577 BEACON ST. • BROOKLINE Antiope .. CONSTANCE CUMMINGS Diasta AVIS SCOTT Anthea .... HILDA BRAWNER Hippolyte JOYCE REDMAN Thalestris NYDIA WESTMAN 6 ) In Harmony with our times - we bow to your wishes and now show AA>4X*J -» so do view OUR collection showing everything in Mink in all its glorious phases before you look further! 300 BOYLSTON STREET PROLOGUE ACT I Outside the Palace of Themiscyra ACT II A Courtyard Inside the Palace Scene 1; Some hours later Scene 2; The next morning; ( Continued KSTORYVILLE NOW IN NEW LOCATION at r NOW THRU SUN. OCT. 23 ALSO AT SUNDAY MATINEE 3-6:30 CHRIS CONNOR MON. 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But, subject to variations of de- tail and of interpretation, the outline is common to all of them - and to this version too. In all of them Heracles is a prodigy of strength and valour and bad temper. In all of them he can claim divine par- entage (on his father’s side), being the product of a peccadillo, in which Zeus, the indefatigably amorous king of the gods, seduced a married lady by disguis- ing himself as a Amphytrion, her hus- band. In all of them Heracles is har- rassed by the wife of Zeus, the jealous, formidable goddess Hera, and it is through her scheming no less than be- cause of his own irascibility that he has been forced to perform the twelve fam- ous Labours; some of them with the voluntary help of another hero, his com- rade Theseus. The Ninth exploit, which obliges Her- acles to wrest from the fierce, invinci- ble Amazons their celebrated royal belt, is the subject of the play. In providing that the feat be tackled in the teeth of Hera’s not very competent obstruction, the author has again followed tradition. In certain other respects he hasn’t. SPI RITED SPORTSWEAR FOR MEN AND “SAVINGS IS OUR MIDDLE NAME” WOMEN BROWNING SAVINGS BANK KING IHUI \\W TWO EXCLUSIVE SHOPS 22 BOYLSTON ST.