Word: acters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...London, Britain's Lord Chamberlain Roger Lumley, Earl of Scarbrough, offi cial censor of public stage plays, slapped a ban on Playwright Miller's latest one-acter, A View from the Bridge. "The play has a theme of incestuous love," ex plained Miller ruefully. "That got by all right, but the censor objected to a scene" in which two men embrace one another." ¶ Wife Marilyn was getting mixed no tices. From her old (69) acquaintance, Poetess Dame Edith Sitwell, with whom La Monroe sipped gin and grapefruit juice, came a highbrow huzza: "She's quite remarkable...
...than half of the performing groups are college workshops, high schools and conservatories. Knowing that he will probably get his hearing in such a setting, and not at the conservative, perennially strapped Metropolitan, the U.S. opera composer writes in a certain vein. His typical product is a lightweight one-acter with few characters (although it may have a chorus, since singers are plentiful on campuses) and a small orchestra. Its plot is likely to be a fantasy with more moral than melodrama; one act is too short, and young artists are not best suited for grand passion. Its music stems...
...acting in The Knife is almost as good as the excellent vehicle. Although Patricia Leatham is a trifle stiff as the mother, Hal Scott is really moving in the difficult role of the boy. Given the short frame work of a one-acter, Scott manages to portray a sensitive boy with the touches of voice and face that mark a subtle actor. It is to his credit, as well as Robinson's, that it is never necessary for the boy to make and obvious announcements his sensitivity. As the evil influence in the boy's life, John Fenn...
...years passed, he wrote (and published) dozens of songs and began to reach for the more ambitious forms of composition. In 1944 he submitted a pair of operas to the Met, one of them based on Racine's Phèdre, the other a one-acter from Coppée's Le Passant (The Passerby), whose plot might have been taken from his own wandering life...
...usually drops the overtures and gets right into the story. When the shortening treatment was given to Benjamin Britten's Billy Budd last fall, critics congratulated NBC on having made Britten's four-acter more coherent and compelling than before...