Word: angeles
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Actress Elsa Lanchester, playing a nightclub date at Manhattan's Blue Angel, shuddered to recall some of her movie roles. "I was a loathsome bearded lady in The Big Top, a resurrected corpse in The Bride of Frankenstein, and I'll play the wicked stepmother in Cinderella," said Elsa in a frightened voice. "I've played so many repulsive characters that I sometimes have to stop and check to make sure that I have arms and legs and am quite normally human...
...Sunshine, translated by Roger Shattuck from the French verse of Rene Char, shows how an interesting idea can be obscured by too conscious a striving for economy. Set at the gates of Heaven, the play concerns a cocky young man who dances to seduce an angel sent to judge whether he is worthy of admission. He fails; she dances away and lets him fall, and a jury of humans, sitting outside the gates, exits in disgust at the rejection of its fair-haired boy. Char should have given his jury further development. It seems to represent the repressed sensuality...
...angel in the pantomime ballet, Bronia Sielewicz is regal and lovely; on the other hand, Rod Davis, the protagonist, is slow and awkward in a role that calls for deft, light dancing. Monotonous narration by Jack Rogers also slowed the play's pace...
DANGEROUS ANGEL (250 pp.)-Clarence Budington Kelland-Harper...
...Dangerous Angel, Kelland's No. 39, the tamee is one Anneke Villard, a girl with a shrewd business sense who hits San Francisco in the closing years of the Gold Rush era, and swiftly parlays a $20,000 inheritance into something nearing a cool million. Unwittingly, she also falls in love with a handsome Telegraph Hill aristocrat named Juan Parnell, although she fights against it. They make up their lovers' quarrel just in time to outwit two murderous swindlers who have suckered San Francisco financial circles in a colossal confidence game...