Word: akimbo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Montmartre Authority. Edith Piaf is still incredibly corny, but with such artful simplicity that the corn becomes completely convincing. Arms akimbo and skinny legs aspraddle, her only jewelry a silver crucifix, accompanying musicians hidden behind a curtain, she stares past the spotlight and pounds honest emotion into some wretched lyrics ("When at last our life is through, I shall share eternity with you"). Since most of her songs are in French, Piaf prefaces them with a dry, straightforward English precis ("She meets her lover; he goes away; she weeps"). But the translation is seldom necessary. Her hands and face...
Gardner Tillson was excellent; as Barnaby Goodchild, the embodiment of changing America, he shoulders a Sisyphian role which is continually taxing and demands a variety of talents, all of which he gives it. With ease and flexibility, he imbues the role with its dynamic symbolism, as limbs akimbo, he burgeons the ever-expanding American frontier...
...half-dark to an empty seat at a beer-laden table. Your eyes are immediately attracted to the stage, and through the smoke of cigarettes and cigars you can see Lola, the Queen of the Blue Angel. With black-stockinged legs spread wide and arms carelessly akimbo she stands at the center of all gazes. In a low and vibrant voice she sings her way into the heart--and libido--of even so staid a person as Professor Immanuel Rath...
...more vitality got his singing. And certainly Edward Stearns, as the Priate King, would improve. Although his deep and pleasant voice conies across the footlights with force and clarity, he is at times wooden in his acting, as though self-conscious. Luckily, he often shakes off his frozen, arms-akimbo stance and really enlivens his fine role...