Word: beatey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...three excellent performances. Miss Grandin is captivatingly acidulous as Celimene, the coquettish object of Alceste's affections, and certainly makes the most of her own talents and adroit direction in bringing out everything the role has to offer. The good-hearted cynicism of Philinte comes across delightfully in Beatey's highly amusing performances, and Hunt handles the confident pomposity of Oronte with his usual competent vigor...
Palomobo's poem gained in the presentation. Robert Beatey as Oedipus, and Elinor Fuchs as a sympathetically obscure Sphinx delivered their lines with a casual dignity which saved the play from any traces of pomposity. The language was pleasantly straight-forward and graceful, and the theme of Oedipus before the crossroads was interesting enough to carry the piece...
...misogynistic ideas of his father as a vehicle for gentle whimsey. His sense of the ridiculous comes through pleasantly in the innate good-humor of his characters, all of whom are provided with an adequate supply of pithy remarks to maintain the lightness of the script. Robert Beatey as the son, Peggy Groome as his young, Irish wife, and Joanna Hutchins as her fairy godmother give their parts plenty of spirited individuality. And if wit and enthusiasm were enough, the play would come off very successfully. As it stands, however, it suffers from weak directing by Woody Price. The handling...
...roles of the only straightforward characters, Robert Beatey and Beverly Butte make goodness almost as appealing as evil. Beatey plays Lord Teazle and, with Miss Scott as his wife, he has no luck in arousing sympathy in the audience, another sorry stroke against Sheridan...
...School for Scandal" will be directed by Edward J. Golden '55, and the cast will include Clare Scott '56, Robert Beatey '55, Andre Gregory '56, Colgate Salsbury '57 and Elinor Fuchs...