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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Several players are trying to land pitching positions, but the leading contenders already appear to be veterans Byron Johnson and Gerry Emmet, and last year's freshman standouts Wally Cook and Al Martin...
...laugh it creates, or in a self-conscious attempt at style, or because the actor cannot think of anything better, or because a bit of the actor himself emerges when he is not looking--is wrong. Extravagance there must be, to match Wilde's extravagance, but it must appear to be the extravagance of the character, not of the actor...
...some nice things after they have gotten over their first-act stiffness. Mr. Lasell has no sense of Jack's earnestness, his utterly sincere hypocrisy, his damnable stuffiness; Mr. Clark copes somewhat better with Algy, but cannot quite hit off his incorrigibly cheeky lightmindedness. As a result, they appear as a set of almost interchangeably cheerful young men. Gretchen Kanne misses the hothouse bloom of Gwendolyn, who exists in and through Society like an elegant bacterium in its nutrient broth. (In the midst of an ineffably decorous cat-fight, Gwendolyn accepts a cup of tea from her rival with...
...settings for Earnest, which should never be designed by anyone but Cecil Beaton. The play is very carefully related to its background in life--Wilde even knows the address of John Worthing's town house. (Fen Lasell's formidable costumes are much more in the vein, because they appear impeccably "period...
...bars in his life): he lived in the white space around the letter of the law. Married to a handsome blonde Junior Leaguer, he was civic-minded, gave thousands to help the blind, financed soup kitchens. Recently he held an interest in the vending-machine business, was scheduled to appear before the McClellan committee. Also, the FBI has arrested several of his friends for bribing the jury that in 1956 failed to find Longie guilty of income tax evasion...