Word: adept
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...members of the company, Fred Koch and Diana Frothingham, are especially imaginative and adept at fitting actions to their parts. As the most Wilde character, Koch minces and skips his way effectively through such numbers as "If You Want a Receipt," proving himself worthy as Gilbert's "ultra poetical, super aesthetical, out-of-the-way young man." Miss Frothingham, as the imposing spinster, Lady Jane, combines husky voice and long arms in an admirable mimic of the decaying but determined old maid...
...Automatic mangles "adept at taking the skin off Junior...
...entrances. Burgin allowed himself virtually no shadings in the tempo within a given section. This was regrettable, though perhaps unavoidable, for Schubert seems longest when he's gotten over most quickly; and the memory of a Mahier 4th performance a few weeks ago proves that Burgin can be very adept in the Viennese style when he wishes...
High scorer lgnack Elganzabel, a senior and a native a Spain, starts at center forward for the visitors. Like Eigauzabel most of the players gained experience playing foreign soccer. They grew up with the game, and are unusually adept at footwork and tricky passing...
...Charles Brandon, Richard Todd is equally adept at gathering a nosegay for the princess, writing her a sonnet, and fighting off the evil duke and his henchmen. Portly James Robertson Justice plays a younger and more forceful Henry VIII than the one Charles Laughton has made familiar to moviegoers. As Mary Tudor, elfin-faced Glynis Johns, with her wryly insinuating voice, gives a winning characterization of a conniving little royal baggage...