Word: actresses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...support; doughty Sir Winston Churchill grumped, "As a parliamentarian, I cannot approve your disorderly method," nevertheless pledged $1,400 to save the theater, which was to be replaced by an office building. Later, cooing, "Oh, how I do love millionaires; they are full of charm as well as dough," Actress Leigh announced happily that art-oriented A & P Moneybags Huntington Hartford and another tycoon had promised to chip in. Last week the embattled actress got the news that the House of Lords gallantly had voted a stay of demolition to the cramped, outmoded, bomb-battered and much-loved theater (where...
...would rather be "some place down the ladder where he can use his energies naturally-not be afraid all the time-be himself." Despite an occasionally listless script ("Oh dear, I can't stand the sight of blood"). Success got its savor from fine performances by Dependable Actress Eileen Heckart and TV's perennial Big-Business Boss Everett Sloane, stood in a class apart from the summer insipidity by managing to meet some of TV's toughest demands: a neatly organized plot, pitiless closeups and split-second scene switching from one effective set to another...
...title role is a virtuoso vehicle for a magnificent actress. Florence Reed is just such an actress. With close to 60 years of stage experience, she knows all the tricks in the book--and this role demands a great many of them. She has a full, rich voice and knows how to underline it with a straightening of the shoulders or a toss of the head. And there is her famous deep-throated chuckle that has almost become a trademark. No other actress is her superior in the ability to project perfectly from fortissimo to pianissimo. Though rather short...
Kilty himself played Shaw, and Cavada Humphrey (who recently became Mrs. Kilty) the actress--both forceful and faultless performances, carefully staged with appropriate lighting and background music. The whole show pointed up the gravity of the theatre's loss between 1940 and 1950 of these letter-writers, two great hearts and grand souls...
...entourage, including John Bernard as his attendant, Alison Keith as the pompous Duchess, and Marjory Harper as the daughter, later Queen of Barataria. Waldstein is nothing short of hilarious as the somewhat down-at-the-heels Duke. Alison Keith, who is well-known to Cambridge audiences, is an excellent actress who possesses a fine comic opera voice. John Bernard has an extremely able voice and he appeared quite natural in his role as drummer-boy, later King of Barataria. As his beloved, Marjory Harper carries off her imperious airs very well, but she appeared somewhat stiff in her love scenes...