Word: actor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Veteran singers who for years have been getting by on their voices alone nervously consulted their dressing-room mirrors, daubing on brown face paint (their usual bright red doesn't televise well). To look his best, Tenor Ramon Vinay turned up in the purple burnoose that famed Actor Edwin Booth wore as Othello...
...chance to spread himself than his leading lady. He gets drunk twice--once on hard cider. He staggers past a group of "proper" Hoosier matrons and topples into a snow-bank, in an episode that is frankly slapstick. But Montgomery isn't a hammy drunk, nor is he an actor pretending to be drunk; he manages to get drunk in a delightfully individual and convincing way. And in his sober moments, he's always in complete command of his part, that of a flippant and roguish magazine writer...
...local group is the idea of Michael Linenthal '37, a Cantabrigian, and Gerald Savory, an English-born Playwright-actor. The two men met in 1947 when Mr. Linenthal's Woodstock Summer Theater was presenting Mr. Savory's play, "George and Margaret." Deciding that this was going to be one civic organization run on a real business-like basis, they innaugurated last year a series of gala cocktail parties where they managed to peddle $40,000 worth of shares to some 3,000 interested citizens. ANTA did its bit by sending celebrities up from New York to brighten the dark corners...
...regarded with skepticism, have not only redeemed themselves in "Red Gloves," but have brought to Boston the best new drama since Mr. Williams' "Streetear" of last year. "Red Gloves" is a generally well-written and always engrossing play that for the first time shows Mr. Boyer to be an actor of considerable abilities...
This accurate study of backstage ballet life is possible because the producers hit upon the idea of employing real ballet dancers to play the parts. Robert Helpmann, who is not only the biggest attraction in British ballet but also a Shakespearean actor, is given a featured role. Ludmilla Teherina plays herself, a temperamental but very luscious prima ballerina...