Word: anderson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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King of the Gulch. Near Idaho Springs, Colo., shaggy, red-bearded Alex Anderson lived a hermit's life in a mountain cave...
...play with Miss Cornell is always an event; her present production is almost an incredibility in the theatrical talent which its dramatis personae represent. Judith Anderson, Ruth Gordon, Edmund Gwenn, Dennis King, Alexander Knox, Gertrude Musgrove, and, of course Katherin Cornell lend an intoxicating amount of capability to a superbly written and directed play...
Then there is the Winthrop House and De Wolfe Street Yo-Yo and top Spinning Society which claims to hold meetings at odd hours under the Lars Anderson Bridge. A rather shady looking bloke, claiming he was a charter member, gave a last spin to his Yo-Yo and retired for the night whistling "Yokahama Yo-Yo" until it was lost on the night...
...play with Miss Cornell is always an event; her present production is almost an incredibility in the theatrical talent which its dramatics personae represent. Judith Anderson, Ruth Gordon, Edmund Gwenn, Dennis King, Alexander Knowx, Gertrude Musgrove and, of course, Katherine Cornell lend an intoxicating amount of capability to a superbly written and directed play...
...takes to drink to escape from his failure in life; his Act III soliloquy, which in less capable hands could have become bathetic, is exactly right. Ruth Gordon is an extremely lifelike Natasha, so lifelike in fact that one comes from the theatre hating her thespian guts. And Judith Anderson turns in a finely turned performance as Olga, bearing her neurosis ably. Miss Cornell, The Lady With the Manner, is as wonderful as ever. Although the play has no one outstanding role, Katherine Cornell's Masha in black habit and, mood makes the most of her propensity to sorrow...