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...moment and miserable the next. He has a taste of intensely pure and happy married life only to be dashed to the depths of depraved vagabondage. He witnesses the great social changes of his time both from the rank of a nobleman and from the position of a beggar...
...sense he is Destiny in his world. A forest to him is a stage setting; a beggar in the street, an actor; an inflection in his neighbor's voice, a situation; a church service, pantomime. He transports them all through his mind to their fate on the stage, where he orders them as he thinks they should be ordered. Staging Everyman before the ancient portals of the Salzburg cathedral, he might be seen posting the saints, instructing the angels, calling up to the high tower whence emanates the voice of Deity, "Speak louder...
...Erskine maintains the integrity and complexity of his character, and the reader is impressed even if he is disillusioned and mortified. Thomas makes the serpentine Cleopatra a naughty high school girl magnifying her most minute sins into heinous debauchery Anyone having entertained admiration for Shakespeare's Cleopatra whose person "beggar'd all description" will put aside "Cleopatra's Private Diary," the appetite cloyed, the effect being similar to that obtained by eating cheap chocolates...
...Boyle's two choicest Bulls, both delivered before the Irish Parliament, were: 1) 'All along the untrodden pathway of the future I can see the footprints of an unseen hand'; and 2) 'Why should we beggar ourselves to benefit posterity? What has posterity ever done...
Again Mr. Abramson is notably good as the beggar in "Hunger", and the performance as a whole is smooth and even Mr. Huberman as the poet looks his part, and makes it sufficiently wistful, and Miss Fay Goeil plays the Girl with taste and conviction. The play, written some years ago for the English 47 Workshop, is by Eugene Fillot. Its moral is perhaps a little obvious, but it does succeed in fixing one's attention and curiosity upon the revelation awaited from the lips of the Satisfied...