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[[image - black & white photograph of Diana Rigg]] DIANA RIGG [[image - black & white photograph of Julie Harris]] JULIE HARRIS [[photographer credit]] FREDERIC OHRINGER about my age. When I play 18 or 20-year-olds--Celimene is 20--I throw myself on the mercy of the audience." In our current time of unemployment, famine and war, we skulk about in search of comfort. And comfort comes in many guises, one of which is familiarity. It is soothing, as well as exhilarating, to see a radiant Ingrid Bergman on stage in The Constant Wife, and then to go home and see her on television in a re-run of the classic Casablanca. It is a comfortable recognition born from years of watching a brilliant actress perfect her craft. And four-time Tony Winner Julie Harris, who earned kudos this season as the dying wife in In Praise of Love, points out, "Older people last because they have the experience. The Lunts got better and better--it was never a question of their getting worse. We all wanted to see them, so when they did The Visit, they could take it all over the world." In the past, Broadway audiences clamored for the Lunts or Katharine Cornell or the Barrymores. They are as demanding now as they were then. Though fed by the movies and television, they still hunger for high quality on the stage. And there is no question that there is a particular excitement to be had in watching at the theatre one's cherished celluloid vision in the [[double line]] PLAYBILL June 1975 [[single line]] ARTHUR T. BIRSH - publisher JOAN ALLEMAN RUBIN - editor-in-chief CYNTHIA CARTY - program coordinator LEO LERMAN - senior editor WALTER VATTER - associate editor MARY F. SEATON - assistant to the publisher THOMAS A. STEINFELD - national sales director L. ROBERT CHARLES - general sales director ELAINE KLEIN - director of special sales RUSSELL CANNIZZARO - comptroller MIMI HOROWITZ - publication coordinator [[single line]] PLAYBILL Magazine is published monthly in New York, Boston and Philadelphia. New York edition of Playbill is published by American Theatre Press, Inc., 151 East 50th Street, N.Y., N.Y. 10022. 212-751-9550. President & Treasurer: Arthur T. Birsh; Vice-Pres.: Steven J. Kumble; Secretary: Mary F. Seaton. Printed in U.S.A. Copyright (c) American Theatre Press, Inc. 1975. All rights reserved. [[single line]] [[boxed advertisement]] The WIZ THE SUPER SOUL MUSICAL "WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ" [[image - drawing of woman in black]] THE 7 TONY AWARD WINNING MUSICAL IS NOW AN ALBUM. ON ATLANTIC RECORDS & TAPES Produced by Jerry Wexler [[Atlantic logo]] [[/boxed advertisement]] [[copyright symbol]] 1975 Atlantic Recording Corp. [[Warner logo]] A Warner Communications Company 4 [[end page]] [[start page]] [[advertisement]] Sting Bee Chooses Cohama [[registered trademark symbol]] Koolie Kloth [[trademark symbol]] [[image - black & white photograph of two women shopping]] COHAMA "KOOLIE KRINKLE" IS A STANDOUT: And Sting Bee makes stand-out fashions. Just the thing for back-to-school. Just the fabric, too. It's Cohama's "Koolie Krinkle" of 50% Kodel* polyester, 50% cotton. A big fashion statement for fall. And because it's made with Kodel, it will stay looking fall fresh. The Pinafore and the Big Top and Pants are just part of a whole collection of fashions done in "Koolie Krinkle." Available in rust, natural, blue, green. Sizes 7 - 14 and preteen. At Bloomingdale's *Kodak Reg. T.M. [[boxed]] Kodel [[registered trademark symbol]] polyester the fiber of American life [[/boxed]] [[image - black & white photograph of front of shirt and geisha doll]] Cohama United Merchants 1407 Broadway New York, N.Y. 10018 (212) 564-6000 [[/advertisement]]
