Word: actor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mention the dazzlingly colorful costumes--but one in which Kilty has taken great pains with the blocking and with fine details. And when he stages a big battle scene, it has all the trimmings. (He is using the wonderfully rolling translation that Brian Hooker made for the actor Walter Hampden...
...world-renowned director Tyrone Guthrie proved to be a gifted comic actor as well at his talk in New Lecture Hall last Thursday. After being introduced (or "eulogized," as he put it), he asked permission to doff his jacket, did so, undid his tie, rolled up his sleeves and unbuttoned his shirt. With navel displayed, he gave his ideas on "The Director in the Theatre," after assuring his large audience that "there ain't no one right way of doin' anything...
Died. Alexandre Georges Pierre (Sacha) Guitry, 72, prolific writer-actor-director-producer of plays and films; after long illness; in Paris. Born in St. Petersburg, where his actor father, Lucien Guitry, was on tour, impudent, versatile Sacha roughed his way through eleven French schools ("I knew all the dates in French history, but, unhappily, not what happened on them"), turned out his first hit comedy at 19, went on to write more than 130 plays, ranging from semiserious portrayals of great men (Pasteur, Mozart) to whipped-cream farces (L'Illusionniste), in the '30s added films (The Story...
Twelve Angry Men. A thriller of ideas in which the right to trial (and error) by jury is cleverly cross-examined by Scriptwriter Reginald Rose, Actor Henry Fonda (TIME, April...
...Strange One. Calder Willingham's novel (End As a Man) about a Southern military academy makes a slick, sadistic thriller-a slashing good cinema debut for Actor Ben Gazzara (TIME, April...