Article: RUBY DEE BRINGS HER OWN WRITINGS TO THE STAGE IN `MY ONE GOOD NERVE'.(What's Happening)

The subject of age comes up. ``Can you keep a secret?'' Ruby Dee asks.

``Cross my heart and hope to die,'' I assure her.

``Well . . . so can I!'' Pause. Think. Oh. I get it. Big laugh from both of us.

Not that her age is the most important thing about Ruby Dee. But she sure has been making public impressions - making history, even - for quite a while. Many remember Ruby Dee in the Broadway production (and then the movie version) of Lorraine Hansberry's 1959 drama ``Raisin in the Sun.''

``The Cambridge Guide to Theatre,'' which does not know how to keep a secret, places Dee's age at 73. Dee has been active and conspicuous in American ...

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