Word: balch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tribute to the late Ethel Barrymore, director Marston Balch and the company of the Tufts Arena Theatre have revived The Royal Family. And with this early (1927) George S. Kaufman-Edna Ferber comedy, these industrious young student-performers conclude their 1959 summer season, by taking us back to the Roaring Twenties when the Barrymores were the reigning theatrical dynasty...
Working with a cast of varied ability, director Balch has staged a lively, amusing production, utilizing the arena stage with ease. Frederick Blais, as Oscar Wolfe, the devoted manager of the Cavendish clan, is just about perfect. Sporting an hillarious Viennese accent, impressive gestures, and clean decisive movement, he turns in the most polished performance I have seen at Tufts this season...
...level the Tufts group does not provide. They fail, both in their line readings and in their movements, to convey any real feeling. Marilyn Rawlins as Mrs. Crochet fails less than the others. But the largest share of the blame should be laid at the feet of director Marston Balch, who has utterly failed to produce any unity, either of accent or of movement or of relationships in this performance. Tom Davis' picturesque and technically impressive set deserves high praise...
Your June 1 article "Of Rabbits & Races" was well reported. Those of us in the South who still have control of our faculties are not responsible for the opinions of Mr. Balch and State Senator Eddins. It is unfortunate that many of your readers will identify this trite nonsense as the philosophy of all those south of the Mason-Dixon Line...
...seems incredible that any sober adult could scent in this fuzzy cottontale for children the overtones of Karl Marx or even of Martin Luther King. But last week in Florida, Columnist Henry Balch thundered in the Orlando Sentinel (circ. 100,000): "As soon as you pick up the book, you realize these rabbits are integrated. One of the techniques of brainwashing is conditioning minds to accept what the brainwashers want accepted." In Alabama, State Senator E. O. Eddins agreed: "This book should be taken off the shelves and burned." Off it went from the regular shelves of the Alabama Public...