Evening star., 1949-07-17
Miss WinWood Candid
Like Lady in Her Play
Summer Drama Star Speaks Mind
On Her Profession and Life
By Joy Cormody

By Joy Carmody
The Lady Brackne played by Esee Winwood In The I'M
porance Of Being Earnest at Meridian Hill Park last week
of studied candor.
So is Miss Winwood.
English summer leave from rich small role
Of Chaio has firmly hxed place In the
and the affections OF its more customers
why she should talk with the
OF two continents including Gasworhy. She
something the art OF candid conversation from BOTH
Take the subject Of the summer theater.
far too summer theaters Miss Winwood
Marking her Raleigh Hotel luncheon table cloth with FORK
she explains:
the place each point being indicated by ab Of the fork
That's too many summer theaters'
1t Affects
trouble with such Of playhouses she
that makes money
actors work than at other season. Miss
Wtnwoods luncheon campanion observed
Eyes but for how much?" the actress countersd.
Take me- am working . percentage. per-
after performance What to the percentsge'
shrinks shrinks That's all right for but
the not fortunate would have
better of at home In Mount Kisco waiting for Madam
Chaflot' to I'd at least have had q rest
Miss winwood not bitter about this just honest Neither
bitter when she talks about critics generally the
press.
critics themselves has not made her mind
whether they ought to review the theater at ALL
Contempates the Critics
trouble with the critics that they do not revise their
standards They make allowance for the fact that summer
productions for less exactns audiences They are heer
skelter which, believe not actor works far
designed be reviewed. which prob
ably the critics should stay away Or If they must come
commentaries Somethng
Winwood who started her in England where
Shaw and Gawrhy her favorite directors the
latter less sarcastic equally candid about theater
people and their private lives
She thinks they spend too much Of their nonprofesonsl
that they would be better of they went out
and met the public on its terms.
Madwoman" She spends nearly three hours daily be-
after performances driving between the heaer and her
Kco home She's just housewife there she explains
= Suburbanite.
70 stores, do my shopping. work in garden,
gossip the neighbors and walk dogs she 1T
better than living New York and seeing only professional
until midnight. Between performances
and eat IN dressing room"
colleagues but rather that she
likes them better spending all her time assocating with
admits Of her favorite
stories Its hero H Allen Smith who lives almost next door
the hills around Mount Kisco
Wednesday night before Thanksgiving not too long
Smiths neshborhood party. Her antpathy
the press which she thinks be fear Of its
personal critics cntered instantly in the coauthor Of Low and
Inside" She left early.
The next day Thanksgiving herself alone and
lonely food in the house that for the dogs not
oversight the Of thinking that 1t time to close
the house and spend few days in New York
Neghbor Was Neighborly.
She feeling pretty low about all when Neghbor Smith
drove by.
How about coming smiths9" shouted
the quickest understanding
ex-newspaperman ever showed.
left ut midnight wonderful still They
almost make think not what they have
brought to believe"
Miss w1nwood thinks that optimistic
Portable than pessmism.
things optimistic about that playwrting
might the Of getting better
ANY finds such acceptance for plays like
Death Nadwoman should make
feel things looking up" shs says
Except open-ar productions rainy week in WASH
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