Timebends (106 page)

Mildred Dunnock, Lee J. Cobb, Arthur Kennedy, Cameron Mitchell. The original Mielziner set caught
Salesman's
reality-condensation with its six-foot bedroom, tiny kitchen table, and lone appliance, the hated refrigerator.

With Elia Kazan, rehearsing
Salesman.

Amazingly, Lee was still in his thirties.

1965, sixteen years later: Cobb cutting the
Salesman
record album, with Dustin Hoffman playing Bernard and obviously studying his future model.

1984, the future arrives: Hoffman as Willy, with John Malkovich, Kate Reid, and Stephen Lang.

Ying Ruocheng,
Salesman's
translator and a brilliant Willy, with Uncle Ben (Zhong Jiyao, wearing Ying's genuine Texas hat), the boys (Mi Tiezeng and Li Shilong), and Linda (Zhu Lin,
left
) in my 1983 Beijing People's Art Theatre production, the first by a foreign director in post-Mao China.

Walter Hampden, Jed Harris, Kermit Bloomgarden. A moment of calm in the first
Crucible
production, Jed in a characteristically disarming attitude.

With designer Boris Aronson, unhappy that his modernist set has been shouted down by Jed in favor of a conventional one, and Bloomgarden, doubtless scheming unavailingly to outwit the director.

Crucible
in Shanghai, directed by Huang Zuolin.

Mary Warren turning on Proctor, original production, 1953:
(counterclockwise from left)
Donald Marye, Madeleine Sherwood, Dorothy Jolliffe, Barbara Stanton, Jenny Egan as Mary, Joseph Sweeney
(back to camera),
E. G. Marshall, Philip Coolidge
(behind Marshall),
Arthur Kennedy, Walter Hampden, Fred Stewart, Don McHenry.