Word: blankenchip
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Perhaps Director John Larson could do little with the script (the authors' first attempt, by the way), but he certainly might have attempted to eliminate a portion of the audience's squirming by toning down the delivery. John Blankenchip's settings, the play's one saving grace, are ingeniously devised to accommodate the wide variety of activities invariably occurring at the same time. JOSEPH P. LORENZ
What poetry and picturesqueness Angel possesses stem from John E. Blankenchip's set and lighting, and Will Irwin's incidental music. The play itself is as devoid of charm as it is of sense, and the players do not help much. Joan McCracken is almost overbearingly girlish. Eddie Dowling - dying at the end with a bright smile and a brighter spotlight on his face - displays his habitual unconquerable benevolence, his seeming desire to bring to humanity all the year round what A Christmas Carol brings it at Christmas...
| 1 |