Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this play is the archtype of the fascist leader--the man who says he took the wheel of the shop "only because it was sinking and somebody had to help." It is not difficult to see why the play was allowed to be performed in occupied France: the appeal of Creon is probably the stronger of the two to most audiences, conditioned as we are to politics over principle...
Katherine Cornell has the difficult role in "Antigone" and the Tyrant"--the role of unreasoning Antigone, moved by the emotions and not by the mind. She plays it with a skill that makes the part really Antigone, not Cornell, sacrificing most of the audience appeal she could have produced with a few slips from the rigid interpretation. Codrie Hardwicke, on the other hand, has a part to be envied in Creon, although this is not to say that he fails in any way to do it justice. Horace Braham as the Chorus is worthy of mention for his fine delivery...
...Gris' appeal is more obvious when he uses brilliant colors, as in the vibrant "Violin et Guitare," or more imaginative, as in the melancholy "L'Arlequin," while his mastery of line work is demonstrated by a pair of fine lithographs, "Marcelle la Brune" and "Marcelle la Blonde...
Every Saturday night in Chicago's 2,500-capacity Orchestra Hall, Youth for Christ rallies listen to this sort of old-fashioned evangelistic appeal. The evangelist: blond, cheerleaderish, 36-year-old Torrey Johnson-director, sparkplug and guiding spirit of "Chicagoland Youth for Christ," president of Youth for Christ International...
Youth for Christ rallies combine the tried & true methods of evangelism with a streamlined box-office appeal that stresses a good deal of amateur-nightish entertainment: Bible quiz shows, sleight-of-hand performers, ventriloquists, close-harmony quartets. The basic precept: "Remember that this is Youth for Christ, and plan your program with teen-age young people in mind...