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Shirley Booth: Winthrop Ames
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Shirley Booth was the most amazing actress of the 20th century. She brought herself "down" to play "Hazel" because she believed in the character. It was a tremendous gamble on her part. But it worked! She was a hit again as the lovable maid. No one else could have pulled this off.
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Highlights of the 1920s at the Booth included George Arliss as the Raja of Ruka in a lush adventure play, "The Green Goddess" (1921), set in the Himalayas, that ran for 440 performances: A.A. Milne's engrossing play The Truth About Blayds (1922), with O.P. Heggie as Blayds, a famed poet who reveals that someone else wrote all his poems, with Leslie Howard, Frieda Inescort, and Ferdinand Gottschalk helping to keep his secret; Austin Strong's unforgettable "Seventh Heaven" (1922), with Helen Menken and George Gaul as the poor lovers in a Parisian garret, which ran for 683 performances; "Dancing Mothers" (1924), a daring play in which a mother (played by Mary Young) rebels against her flapper daughter (Helen Hayes) and philandering husband (Henry Stephenson) by going wild herself and walking out on them; Edna Ferber and George S. Kaufman's "Minick" (1924), a gentle study of an old man going to live with his son and daughter-in-law; Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne in their fourth play together, Molnar's "The Guardsman" (1924), which was so successful that it moved from the Garrick Theatre to the Booth and delighted Theatre Guild audiences; publisher Horace Liveright's startling modern-dress production of "Hamlet" (1925), with Basil Sydney as the Melancholy Dane in a dinner suit, King Claudius (Charles Waldron) in flannels, and Ophelia (Helen Chandler) in flapper frocks; "The Patsy" (1925), a winning comedy starring Claiborne Foster; Winthrop Ames's 1926 production of a fanciful Philip Barry comedy, "White Wings" (a fancy term for street cleaners), which should have lasted longer than 27 performances; Ruth Gordon, Roger Pryor, and Beulah Bondi in Maxwell Anderson's timely comedy about youth, " Saturday's Children" (1927); Leslie Howard and Frieda Inescort in John Galsworthy's excellent drama "Escape" (1927-28), brilliantly produced and staged by Winthrop Ames; The Grand Street Follies of 1928, an annual topical revue that spoofed current plays and players, with James Cagney tapping and Dorothy Sands stopping the show with her impression of Mae West playing Shakespeare; The "Grand Street Follies" of 1929, again with Cagney, Sands, and others doing parodies; and the last show of the 1920s at the Booth, a contemporary comedy of ill manners called "Jenny "(1929), starring Jane Cowl as an actress who tries to straighten out a wayward family but ends up running off with the father of the house, capitally played by Guy Standing.
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It's appropriate that the Booth's first production was Arthur Bennett's The Great Adventure. Lee Shubert and his partner in the Booth, Winthrop Ames, had just survived an adventure far uptown. They were involved in the building of the New Theater, on Central Park West between 62nd & 63rd Streets. Designed by distinguished architects Carrere and Hastings, the huge theater meant to house subsidized productions affordable to all people. The effort went belly up after 2 years; it is thought by some that this experience influenced the decision to build the Booth as a small house
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The common research orientation is phenomenographic (Marton, 1981; Marton & Booth, 1997), extended to engage with specific issues as appropriate. Empirical studies are being carried out in which data is being collected that as closely as possible reflects the students' variations in ways in which the common attributes of flexibility, diversity and the constituted context for learning, are experienced by the groups of students engaged in the courses, as well as approaches to and outcomes of the learning process itself.
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