Word: agnese
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Shining Sticks. With Don Juan in Hell, Laughton is tossing a sizable bone to the culture-starved. Don Juan, the seldom-played third act of Shaw's Man and Superman, is a dream sequence that is short on dramatic action and two hours long on Shavian talk about sex...
74. Charles Laughton, Charles Boyer, Sir Cedric Hardwicke and Agnes Moorehead, as the First Drama Quartette, have let the country hear some much-neglected dialectical fireworks-the hell scene in:
"In view of press stories linking my name with suspected communists as part of a proposed 'unit' for some kind of C.I.A. project, I trust you will permit me to state as I have already reiterated publicly and under oath, that I have never been a communist, nor a communist...
Carlsen to Keith: "It's icy in here. We have rigged a rape up to the doorway, just in case we have to quit in a hurry. Send a message to Agnes, my wife. I am anxious because I have not heard a word from her . . ."
Her first concerts showed a mature wit, a flair for character dancing, and a feel for American material (forty-niners, chorines, Civil War vaudevillians). The critics clapped, but the going was hard. For the next half-dozen years, Agnes lived on a small allowance from her father, eked out with...