ABSTRACT

During its fifty year run, Theatre Arts Magazine was a bustling forum for the foremost names in the performing arts, including Stanislavski, Laurence Olivier, Lee Strasberg, John Gielgud and Shelley Winters. Renowned theatre historian Laurence Senelick has plundered its stunning archives to assemble a stellar collection of articles on every aspect of acting and theatrical life.

part I|88 pages

Acting in the American tradition

chapter 3|8 pages

Billets doux

chapter 4|7 pages

Paul Muni

A profile and a self-portrait

chapter 6|5 pages

Comedienne from Radcliffe

Josephine Hull

chapter 7|6 pages

Laurette Taylor

chapter 11|6 pages

Geraldine Page

The irony of a legend

chapter 12|4 pages

Jason Robards, Jr.

chapter 13|4 pages

George C. Scott

chapter 15|9 pages

“Dear Diary…”

chapter 16|6 pages

Julie Harris

part II|71 pages

The British legacy

chapter 18|7 pages

Acting in my time

chapter 19|15 pages

An artist's apprenticeship

Chapters from an autobiography

chapter 20|3 pages

The Gielgud Macbeth

chapter 21|5 pages

John Gielgud

Actor

chapter 22|5 pages

The actor as biographer

Wilfrid Lawson

chapter 24|4 pages

The Oliviers

chapter 28|5 pages

Albert Finney

part III|61 pages

Foreign modes of performance

chapter 31|5 pages

Eleonora Duse

The last phase

chapter 32|1 pages

Giovanni Grasso

chapter 33|10 pages

Mei Lan-Fang

chapter 34|4 pages

Between curtains

The acting of the Abbey Theatre

chapter 37|6 pages

Louis Jouvet

The triumph of deceit

chapter 38|13 pages

Lotte Lenya

part IV|62 pages

Stanislavsky and his followers

chapter 42|4 pages

An actor prepares

A comment on Stanislavsky's method

chapter 43|4 pages

An actor prepares

Comments on Stanislavsky's method

chapter 44|6 pages

The Group Theatre

In its tenth year – a critical estimate

chapter 46|6 pages

Past performances

chapter 50|5 pages

Wanted

More stars, less “method”

part V|55 pages

The actor and his role

chapter 51|9 pages

The actor attacks his part

Lynn Fontanne and Alfred Lunt

chapter 52|8 pages

A play in the making

The Lunts rehearse Amphitryon 38

chapter 53|6 pages

The actor attacks his part

Nazimova

chapter 54|7 pages

The actor attacks his part

Katharine Cornell

chapter 55|6 pages

The actor attacks his part

Burgess Meredith

chapter 56|8 pages

The actor-dancer attacks his part

Fred Astaire

chapter 57|5 pages

The singing actress attacks her part

Lotte Lehmann

chapter 58|4 pages

Great roles reborn

Bette Davis tells Ramon Romero how Regina, the Old Maid and Miss Moffat came to the screen

part VI|43 pages

Technical matters

chapter 60|4 pages

Illusion in acting

chapter 61|3 pages

The lazy actor

chapter 62|5 pages

Type-casting

The eighth deadly sin

chapter 65|7 pages

Notes on film acting

chapter 66|7 pages

The actor as thinker