Word: bedlam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...haughty caterer (Leo G. Carroll) sniffs through Tracy's suburban home, orders it thoroughly revamped for the reception. Tracy's 20-year-old cutaway splits a seam. A lovers' quarrel threatens briefly to end the whole show. The wedding rehearsal turns into bedlam. Then comes the ceremony itself and the ultimate chaos-the reception. Tossed about in a maelstrom of thirsty guests and burdened with such undignified chores as untangling traffic jams out front, Tracy cannot find his daughter to say goodbye before she rushes off on her honeymoon. Finally he is alone and at peace with...
Loyal Red Wing fans had waited all year for the moment, and the 13,000 or so of them in Detroit's Olympia Stadium sent up a great roar. The roar subsided to happy bedlam as Red Wing Team Captain Sid Abel accepted the trophy cup in center ice. Then the Detroit crowd struck up a chant: "We want Howe...
...Seattle officials say that i) all bids may be thrown out only when all are unsatisfactory; 2) the offer to amend the bid was not only illegal in Seattle, but, if permitted,, would have led to "bedlam" in contract letting...
...special quality of "King Lear" which makes it so difficult to stage, is its summoning up of the elemental powers of Nature, and it is King Lear himself-sometimes sane, sometimes mad like his Foot and Tom O' Bedlam, sometimes an old man, sometimes a king above men-who is most closely connected with Nature. Therefore, if the play is to mean anything, it must have a Lear who can speak with Nature, pluck the infinite out of the false ceiling of the Brattle Theatre. William Devlin is this...
...part of Edmund, who is placed dramatically at the head of the opposition to Lear. Albert Marre was too listlessly evil to stand out sharply from the hard wickedness of Generil and Regan, not to speak of maintaining himself against Lear, Robert Fletcher, as Edgar and "Tom O' Bedlam, Slightly undermined a fine performance by a tendency to a forensic delivery not compatible with the honest simplicity of the part...