Arts , Entertainment and Leisure in the Sunday Herald Tribune
Section Five of the Sunday Herald Tribune was devoted to Drama, Art, Screen, Dance, Garden, Radio, Music and Resorts. The section was notable in having multiple interviews and features on Broadway personalities.
A caricature of the cast of the upcoming “Call Me Mister” and a publicity photo from “Woman Bites Dog,” both opening on Broadway that week, topped page one.
In his Sunday column, theater critic Howard Barnes urged Katharine Cornell to establish a repertory company and expressed his disappointment in "St. Louis Woman."
The wickedly entertaining Lucius Beebe interviewed Sam and Bella Spewack, who had written "Woman Bites Dog."
Joe Pihodna wrote a column of theater and screen news item.
Otis Guernsey interviewed Orson Welles.
Helen Ormsbee interviewed 21-year old actress Susan Douglas of Broadway's "He Who Gets Slapped."
A brief article noted that Diane Adrian was attracting a lot of attention in Dick Kollmer's “Are You With It,” in which she had no lines, only a bored squeal at the end of her cooch dance. She played an apathetic carnival dancer. Despite her minimal participation, she had appeared “with remarkable frequency” in national magazines as well as on the cover of the show's souvenir book, in newspaper ads and on the show's poster.
Julie Haydon, starring on Broadway as the emotionally fragile Laura Wingfield in “The Glass Menagerie,” was the subject of an interview.
An article on producer Michael Myerberg, represented on Broadway at this time by the Mary Martin musical “Lute Song,” was the subject of a feature.
A feature story looked forward to Danny Kaye performing his popular nightclub number "Pavlova" in "Kid From Brooklyn," the week's most heavily promoted movie opening.
A caricature and extended caption paid tribute to the stage show at Radio City Music Hall, the blockbuster Easter attraction in the city.
Thornton Delehanty interviewed Emmet Lavery, president of the Screen Writers Guild, who was running for Congress in the Democratic primary in California. Lavery had written "Magnificent Yankee," then on Broadway.
Other movie news and features from the section are here.
The radio coverage was largely made up of the listings of the week's programming and ads.
Art critic Carlyle Burrows reviewed “Pioneers in Modern Art in America” at the Whitney and the Chagall show at the Museum of Modern Art. Another column was devoted to a roundup of some of the works on exhibit that week at art galleries.
Dance critic Walter Terry wrote about the importance of dance education and prima ballerina Alicia Alonso was the subject of a caricature.
The arts and leisure section of the Sunday Herald Tribune devoted several pages to travel. The travel pages were filled with ads for Atlantic City and Florida hotels and nearby mountain resorts. Some of the stories read like press releases. Among the featured destinations were New Hampshire, the Luray Caverns in Virginia, the Manoir Richelieu at Murray Bay, Quebec and the Southern Pines golf tournament in N.C. Ocean City and Atlantic City promoted their Easter services. Tourists were not yet traveling in great numbers to war-ravaged Europe. The Canada Steamship Line offered excursion cruises on the Great Lakes. With travel restrictions lifted, resorts and tour officials were predicting a record year in domestic travel. July and August reservations already were at a premium, according to a lead story.
Articles on gardening occupied several pages at the back of the section. The paper had a lot of suburban readers.