Word: adolphe
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...actors have worked for consistent characterizations instead of trying for startling effects. Although neither Gustav, the former husband (Marc Temin), nor Adolph (Henry Goldstein) is precisely defined at the first, by the end of the play I felt I knew them...
...production's balance, I think, was Gustav. He manipulated Adolph so easily, the transparency of his ploys seemed vulgar. At first I was bothered by his voice--Temin has adopted what sounds like a Texas accent, and at times his are the tones of a small-time politician. But had he been more suave and mysterious, as Strindberg specialists may argue he should have been, the play might easily have seemed foolish. The ordinariness and obviousness are what makes the whole situation so sordid...
...trove of sight gags (a skirt needs straightening? Whee! Cut it off.) and leering, horn-honking, pinching pursuit of squeaking blondes kept a generation of Americans in helpless laughter-and a thousand comedians trying to top him; following heart surgery; in Hollywood. Behind the idiot grin, Harpo (real name: Adolph) was a witty, gentle soul, married to one woman for life, and the doting father of four adopted children; he was also, of course, a brilliant musician, frequently playing his harp in serious concerts and always using it as a soothing counterpoint to his impish movie imagery...
...York by two years. His entrée was accomplished by none other than Herbert Hoover, who had gone South to inspect damage done by the great Mississippi flood of 1927. Impressed by Catledge's flood stories in the Memphis Commercial Appeal, Hoover mentioned them to his friend Adolph Ochs, then Times publisher. Ochs acted, and Catledge was on his way to Manhattan...
...local fishermen into bouillabaisse for Max Ernst, Jean Hélion and Fernand Léger when they were war refugees in the Hamptons, says, "I am crazy about the sky. It's like Paris." City Landscapist Jane Wilson likes the change. Moreover, Art lives comfortably with Wealth. Adolph Gottlieb is a neighbor to one of the U.S.'s richest in-surancemen. He reports that "if you say to a cocktail party of brokers out here, 'I'm a painter,' they understand. They are interested...