Word: besting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harvard lost all its meets last year. Its best showing of the season came in the Big Three triangular meet Yale won and Princeton just edged the Crimson...
...Colonel's Lady" Maugham is at his best in satire of cultured English society, and superb acting combines to make this the best of the four pieces. Indeed the production and acting are on an unusually high level throughout the four stories and it is only in analysis that the picture seems to sag a bit in the middle. The general effect, as one leaves the theater, is that "the very old number," as Maugham now likes to call himself, and everyone else who has had anything to do with "Quartet" have turned out a highly entertaining group...
Maurice Evans and Edna Best change their peace from a mismatched couple filled with hate for each other, in the first one-act play of Terrance Rattigan's "Double Bill," to a madcap theatrical team in the second...
Happily, Mr. Evans' operatic tendencies were not in evidence (except in the second play where they were quite in order), and he performed subtlely and sensitively, with his usual technical excellence. His wife, an equally complex but less developed character, was portrayed with understanding by Edna Best. A competent cast supported the stars in both plays...
...done by the Commedia del Arts in 13-15th century Italy. The actors then had no scripts, but improvised from a stock situation. An analogy would hold between one of these situations and the framework of a rehearsal of "Romeo and Juliet," in which Mr. Evans and Miss Best, as a famous and fabulous theatrical couple, play the title parts between miscellaneous interruptions in the course of the rehearsal. The play parodies the ingrown frame of mind often found in the theater where the world would seem to pivot on a chalk mark in the center of the stage...