Word: acted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nothing to clean the ex-convict thugs out of the Teamsters or sever the businesslike connections between his union and the underworld. Said Chairman McClellan to Witness Hoffa: "You have created an impression in the minds of some people that possibly one of the reasons you don't [act against the hoods] is because you are in the same category...
Finally one comes to the performances of the first act. Jerome Kilty, playing the central role of Henry Higgins, was required to carry most of this act on his own and unfortunately was not equal to this task. Evidently well-versed in Shakespearean acting, he attempted to perform Shaw in a Shakespearean manner. The result was a stiff, awkward, and a rather weak portrayal...
This was fortunately offset by the remarkable Doolittle family. Rosemary Harris, as Eliza, and Max Adrian, as her father, rescued the first act, and then proceeded to steal the show in the final acts...
...second act was the triumph of the evening. The scene marked Eliza's first and half-educated entrance into high society. In this Miss Harris was perfect. Her conversation and accent, a mixture of her own flower-girl experience and the teaching of Professor Higgins, carried the one-sided conversation to a hilarious and colorful climax. She was ably assisted in this by Olive Dunbar as Mrs. Eynsford Hill, and Joyce Ebert as her daughter, whose wonderful indignant facial expression added a great deal of amusement to the overall scene. Cavada Humphrey, as Higgins' mother, played the Victorian matriarch...
...third act, Eliza and her father again carried the humor and action over Kilty's blustering and often clumsy Higgins. Again the applause-getting taxi wrought near-havoc, this time with a late entrance, leaving Eliza and Freddy Eynsford Hill, adequately played by Frederic Warriner, in an overlong and embarrassing embrace...