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...acting doesn't end when lines end. There is more to it than delivering speeches flawlessly and then just waiting, like Pygmalion's statue, for Aphrodite to give the cue to speak again. You must act from the moment you appear on stage until you exit. This is what Bobbit has mastered; he is always acting, interacting and reacting, whether he is speaking or not. On Tuesday night I even noted several members of the cast starting up conversation before they had exited beyond reach of eye and ear; this is not professional theatre. You must assume that, at every...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: Love's Comedy | 8/9/1956 | See Source »

Capote's style is pure and free from writer's cramp in dealing with such subjects as the devotions and heroisms of children and the world of intense phenomena in which children live. His description of Miss Bobbit, in Children on Their Birthdays, may not be for everybody, but it is a fair example of good Capote: "By now it was almost nightfall, a firefly hour, blue as milkglass; and birds like arrows swooped together and swept into the folds of trees. Before storms, leaves and flowers appear to burn with a private light, color, and Miss Bobbit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Private Light | 3/14/1949 | See Source »

...Texas a bundle of $1,000 in marked bills was handed to State Representative Dale. He accepted it gladly. Half of it was for his friend, State Representative Moore. Forthwith, Mr. Dale was arrested, was expelled from the legislature along with Mr. Moore for accepting a bribe. Speaker Bobbit and ranger officers had hatched the trap. Messrs. Dale and Moore, expectant of reward, had previously promised to kill a bill taxing optometrists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Miscellaneous Mentions: Feb. 21, 1927 | 2/21/1927 | See Source »

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