Word: beatonized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Roth's three pretty sets, something got caught. But by curtain time, the mechanism was behaving itself. The evening proved one of the Met's gayest in years-a mood helped along by a ballet prelude, Soiree, choreographed by Zachary Solov against a brilliant setting by Cecil Beaton...
...Chalk Garden (by Enid Bagnold) is one of those rare plays that are genuinely and fascinatingly individual. When the curtain rises on a Cecil Beaton drawing room in Sussex, nothing could look more conventional. Even when the characters seem less in a comedy of manners than a comedy of mannerisms, Playwright Bagnold could still be having fairly usual fun with her eccentrics. But soon enough there is evidence of a special mind and temperament at work, of a kind of grande-dame method of playwriting, wayward and unconciliatory, but with a wit that delights and an authority that mesmerizes...
...both bright and fashionable. She has written a scattering of plays, and a book of memoirs. Once, for a charity show, she wrote a play called A Night in the Palace of Prince Esterhazy, with a cast that included Grace Moore, Mrs. Vincent Astor, Mrs. Angier Biddle Duke, Cecil Beaton, Prince Serge Obolensky. and Papa Damrosch himself...
Dinner Party's leading character might just hold her own with an Obolensky, but would feel that she had nothing really adequate to say to an Astor or really adequate to wear for a Beaton. She is more likely to turn up in a creation of three seasons ago, with a not-too-notice able grass stain on the skirt. The Dinner Party, written in diary form, records the daily round of a family just moved from the city while husband Charles writes a book. The diarist-heroine achieves an art less air and a malicious...
...imposed by the theatre, however, even he can't execute an intricate portrait laid on with the brush strokes of eight hundred pages. He has drawn the lines faithfully, attentive to perspective and detail, but the shadings are necessarily hasty and the tone is flat. While elegant, costumed by Beaton and framed in the Eckarts' sets, the portrait remains a sketch. Worst of all, the portrait is dull, for there is neither life nor appeal in the Lady's eyes...