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Martha Gellhorn with her husband, Ernest Hemingway, 1941. Robert Capa/Magnum Photos
RESERVE YOUR TICKETS TODAY
Monday, May 19, 2008
6pm Dinner
Etcetera Etcetera Restaurant
352 West 44th Street
8pm Reading
Mint Theater
311 West 43rd Street
Reception to follow
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Tickets @ $500 each and list me as a "Special Correspondent" in the program
(dinner, reading and reception)
Tickets @ $350 each and list me as a "Star Reporter" in the program
(dinner, reading and reception)
Tickets @ $250 each
(dinner, reading and reception)
Tickets @ $125 each
(reading and reception only)
I cannot attend, but would
like to support Mint Theater with a donation.
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MINT BENEFIT HONORS JOURNALIST GELLHORN
Event features reading of 1946 comedy "Love Goes to Press"
Please join us on May 19th for a reading of a delightful comedy by Martha Gellhorn and Virginia Cowles, read by a stellar cast of your favorite Mint actors and others.
Martha Gellhorn was a trailblazing journalist, filing dispatches over the course of five decades from some of the most dramatic hot spots across the globe. Her writing rings out with authenticity, keen observation and humanity.
Already a published author, her career as a war correspondent began in 1937 when she reported on the Spanish Civil War for Colliers magazine. She was a resident of the famed Hotel Florida in Madrid, along with many other foreign correspondents - including Ernest Hemingway with whom she was having an affair. They married in 1940 - and divorced in 1945.
His play The Fifth Column fictionalizes their romance. Gellhorn could not have been flattered by Hemingway's |
portrayal of Dorothy Bridges, the long-legged blond in his play, described as "lazy and spoiled and rather stupid..." In 1946, Gellhorn had her revenge when she and fellow war correspondent, Virginia Cowles, decided on a lark to write a comedy about two female war correspondents covering WWII. Their delicious comedy, called Love Goes to Press, is a frothy concoction, a romantic comedy set in a press camp in 1944 Italy.
The cast of characters includes a tough American newspaperman, recently divorced from one of the heroines: "You can't tell from the outside that he's got the character of a cobra. From the outside he's a beautiful, funny, fascinating man." |
Love Goes to Press is both a comical romp and a fascinating counterpoint to The Fifth Column. Don't miss it!
Dinner Expected to Draw Quite a Crowd
Join us for a delicious dinner at Etcetera Etcetera before the performance where a very special guest will read Martha Gellhorn's wonderfully witty and wry introduction to Love Goes to Press (written 50 years after the composition of the play) describing the improbable circumstances under which it was written and first performed: |
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"I must advise you at once that this play bears no resemblance whatever, of any kind at all, to war and war correspondents. It is a joke. It was intended to make people laugh and to make money. It made people laugh splendidly in London; however not a penny was received by the playwrights..." |
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MINT THEATER COMPANY BENEFIT COMMITTEE:
Honorary:
Dr. Alfred Gellhorn
Christine Gellhorn
Dr. Sandra Spanier
Director of the Hemingway Letters Project & Editor of LOVE GOES TO PRESS ( U. of Nebraska Press)
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Co-chairs:
Linda Calandra*
Ruth Friendly
Committee:
Julia Beardwood
Renee Brennan
Jon Clark*
Marjorie Ellenbogen
Katie Firth
Ciro & Gail Gamboni
Karene Infranco
Linda Irenegreene &
Martin Kesselman
Suzanne Kilgallen
Annette Mark
Eleanor Reissa* &
Roman Dworecki
Gary Schonwald*
Ruth Silverman
M. Elisabeth Swerz*
*member Mint Board of Trustees |
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