Morales J. Morales 1 9 5 8 - July to December

6 July 1958 - Pequeno Teatro Popular presents 'O poço da vila' (Village's well) by José Carlos Cavalcanti Borges. 

13 July 1958 - Playwright from Pernambuco, José Carlos Cavalcanti Borges visits Sao Paulo and watches 'O poço do rei'.

20 July 1958 -

27 July 1958 -

3rd August 1958 -

 17 August 1958 - actor and mime artist Ricardo Bandeira - born on 11 January 1936, in Rio de Janeiro - died on 10 October 1995, in Sao Paulo. 

31st August 1958 - 

21st September 1958 - playwright Roberto Freire had his play 'Quarto de empregada' (Maid's quarters) banned by Federal Censorship.

7 September 1958 - 'Quarto de empregada' author Roberto Freire protests against the Censorship of his play. 

14 September 1958 - Augusto Boal, Francisco de Assis, Flavio Migliaccio, Nelson Xavier, José Renato, Oduvaldo Vianna Filho, Gianfrancesco Guarnieri, Milton Gonçalves, Paulo Afonso Grisolli, Maria Tereza Vargas and Nelly Chagas sign a document against the Censorship imposed on playwright's Roberto Freire's play 'Quarto de empregada' (Maids' quarters).

7 September 1958 - In 1947, Georges Bernanos was hired to write the dialogue for a film screenplay, through Raymon-Léopold Bruckberger and the scenario writer Philippe Agostini, basedo on the novella Die Letzte am Schafott by German novelist Gertrud von Le Fort, about the 1794 execution of the Carmelite Nuns of Compiègne who during the closing days of the Reign of Terror, in the French Revolution, were guillotined in Paris for refusing to renounce their vocation. The screenplay was judged insatisfactory. Following Bernano's death, Albert Béguin, his literary executor discovered the manuscript. To assist Bernano's heirs, Béguin sought to have the work published. 

14 September 1958 - 

28 September 1958 - Italian actress Diana Torrieri wows Sao Paulo's theatre buffs with her virtuosity... 

28 September 1958 - Sao Paulo's theatre people against Censorship sign a petition against such a n onslaught on the freedom of speech. 

12 October 1958 - Abilio Pereira de Almeida's lastest play 'Alô!... 36-5499' at Teatro Cultura Artistica with Irene de Bojano, Irina Greco, Felipe Carone, Luiz Eugenio Barcelos, Armando Bogus and Nelson Duarte.

19 October 1958 - OESP fails to name what play this cartoon by Morales J.Morales depicts... 

26 October 1958 - another great work by Morales J. Morales showing the cast of 'A rainha de Moçambiques'.

Morales J. Morales 1 9 5 8 - January to June

12 January 1958 - Morales J. Morales depicts Sidneia Rossi, Guilherme Corrêa, Gustavo Pinheiro, Eduardo Waddington, Carlos Zara, Sergio Cardoso and Wanda Kosmo in Ariano Suassuna's 'O casamento suspeitoso'.

Ariano Suassuna.

19 January 1958 - from left to right: Edney Giovenazzi, Ana Maria Nabuco, Sadi Cabral in Sidney Howard's 'They knew what they wanted' (A mulher do outro)

Sidney Howard and Clare Eames. 

26 January 1958 - Milton Moraes, Odete Lara, Araçary de Oliveira and Manoel Carlos in Danilo Bastos' 'Society em baby doll'.

9 February 1958 - Morales J. Morales must have been impressed favourably by Walter D'Avila's performance at Walter Pinto's 'É de xurupito' at Theatro Paramount.

16 February 1958 - Moliere's 'Le médecin maigré lui' (Médico à força) at Teatro São Paulo.

23rd February 1958 - Gianfrancesco Guarnieri's 'Eles não usam black-tie' (They don't wear black-tie' was the most exciting play of 1958.

2nd March 1958 - Actor Sergio Cardoso is seen here receiving two different awards for best-actor for 1957: from the hands of Sao Paulo governor Janio Quadros he receives a bag of dough for his portraying of Shakespeares's 'Hamlet'; from the president of 'Sao Paulo's Theatre-reviewers Association' he gets a medal for his work in Robert Anderson's 'Chá e simpatia' (Tea and sympathy).

9 March 1958 - TBC presents Guilherme Figueiredo's 'A muito curiosa historia da virtuosa matrona de Efeso' with Fernanda Montenegro, Sergio Britto, Nathalia Timberg & Leonardo Villar.

16 March 1958 - Claude Magnier's 'Uma cama para três' with Sergio Cardoso, Carlos Zara & Vera Nunes.

23rd March 1958 - Teatro Novos Comediantes presents Isaac Gondim Filho's 'A hora marcada' with Córdula Reis, Rosires Rodrigues, Pérola Moreira, Altamiro Martins, Cleber Martins and Tarcisio Magalhães Sobrinho.

30 March 1958 - from left to right: Elias Gleizer, Dina Lisboa, Dalia Palma (as Anne Frank writing on her diary), Walter Avancini, Felipe Carone, Esther Mindlin Guimarães and Maria Dilnah.

13 April 1958 - Brazil's most popular actress-comedian Dercy Gonçalves in a play by one of Brazil's most celebrated playwrights Nelson Rodrigues who actually re-hashed his old play 'Dorotéia' giving it a more 'scandalous' name: 'Vinde ensaboar vossos pecados' (Come and soap up your sins!). OESP theatre columnist sheds a bit of light on the whole thing. Show-girl Nelia Paula and film actress Darcy Coria on supporting roles.

20 April 1958 -

4 May 1958 - at Teatro Cultura Artística, Jean Anouilh's 'A valsa dos toureadores' (La valse des toréadors) directed by Augusto Boal, stage set by Gianni Ratto.with Milton Moraes, Vanda Marchetti & Liana Duval.

11 May 1958 -

25 May 1958 -

 1st June 1958 - Brazilian playwright Abilio Pereira de Almeida apparently wrote 'Dona Violante Miranda' having Dercy Gonçalves in mind...

8 June 1958 - Michael Vincent Gazzo's Broadway hit 'A hatful of rain' adapted as 'Juventude sem dono' in which American addiction to cocaine & heroin is treated as if it were a Brazilian problem.

'Juventude sem dono' (A hatful of rain) - a gritty Broadway play about drug addiction, ran for 389 performances in 1955-1956. It starred Ben Gazzara and Shelley Winters in the two lead roles, and subsequently was adapted into a film by Oscar-winning director Fred Zinnemann in 1957. The movie was nominated for an Academy Award for best-actor in a leading-role (Anthony Franciosa). 

15 June 1958 -

1st June 1958 - new-faces Altamiro Martins and Rosires Rodrigues reading Emlyn Williams' 'Trespass' (Transgressão).

22nd June 1958 - The visit of Prince & Princess Misaka from Japan as seen by Morales J. Morales.

 29 June 1958 - Nathalia Timberg, Leonardo Vilar and Eduardo Waddington in Arthur Miller's 'Um panorama visto da ponte' (A view from the bridge).