Word: actor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dillon himself is an artist, an actor-playwright to be specific--and a thorough second-rater. Like Jimmy Porter in Look Back in Anger, he is suffering from "the pain of being alive," and it stings him into delivering tirades, presumably on the authors' behalf, concerning such matters as religion, the middle-class mind, and the relationship of life to art. These tirades are neither so long, so frequent, nor so good as Jimmy Porter's similar tirades, but they are well...
...years. Were it ever to be published, that would be a black day! What corner of the world would have me? But when I write to be read, then writing becomes work. There are all sorts of pressures, artificial standards. I imagine it must be much like the actor on the stage--the feeling of limitations, almost embarrassment...
...Carney Meets Peter and the Wolf (ABC) proved to be one of the most engaging shows ever to be seen on TV. Actor Carney was fine as a new character in the old fairy tale, but the wonder of the hour-long show was Bil and Cora Baird's 50 animal puppets, who achieved something rare-a fairy tale mixed with true gaiety, a child's world edged by real irony. That was the spirit, too, of Ogden Nash's lyrics, notably in the wolf's lament ("Aesop launched the slander/ I should have eaten Aesop...
Edwin Booth (by Milton Geiger) is José Ferrer, and never the twain connect. This farrago of many scenes is nothing resembling a play; this thespian in many costumes evokes no once-great actor. Something has been borrowed from the legend of the Mad Booths, and something from the lives, to which have been added puns, pomposities, and speeches from Shakespeare's plays. In an atmosphere of swig-and-spout, Old Junius and Young Ned part company in California; Ned, amid rehearsals, finds romance with Mary Devlin; John Wilkes Booth shouts his Latin and is the assassin...
...Hartman '61, director of Waiting for Godot, which reopens tonight at the Commander Hotel, may restage the show in New York at the invitation of actor and director Wendell Phillips, for the permanent repertory of the Actor's Repertory Theatre. Godot will play in Cambridge tonight through Monday night...