Word: brenner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...leading females are also very capable. Although Maggie Brenner, who plays Peer's mother, Aase, moves too gingerly for an old woman in the opening scene, her death scene is one of the play's high points. As Solveig. Eden Murray's grace and warmth generate the impression of an innocent maiden, and her fine voice enhances her sensitive characterization...
...After 21 years with Taplinger, Inc., a public relations firm, Bertha Kelly, 50, was making $20,000 a year as vice president in charge of West Coast operations. When Taplinger merged with Rogers, Cowan & Brenner, Kelly was dismissed without severance. "I've had to learn to avoid all extravagance," she says. "In fact, I'm just scratching along." Her job prospects...
...would be unfair to blame Maggie Brenner (Deborah), Ann Varley (Sara), or Michael Gury (Simon) for problems that are so obviously the fault of the script. Lines like "There's love in me, too, enough love to destroy all the greed in the world" are bound to make the most subtle, provocative actor or actress sound silly. Maggie Brenner is effective as the jealous, rapidly aging mother who combats loneliness by occasional flights into a world of make-believe. These moments of fanciful imagination would be hard to sustain were they not presented with delicacy and poise. Sometimes Deborah...
...With her select words so ingeniously misapplied without being mispronounced," Maggie Brenner enriches the absurdity of Mrs. Malaprop's character and language through controlled inflection and frenzied movements. Playing opposite Brenner, Mark Mosca is grotesquely amusing as Anthony Absolute. Buttressed by strong stage presence, he limps around, bursts into fits of rage and screws up his face like David Fry. The character of Captain Absolute is cold and obnoxious, and Richard Bangs's performance does not add any warmth to the part. Bangs often seems to be just reading his lines. Sir Lucius O'Trigger is a stock Irish figure...
Says Steven Brenner, 25, a young Chicago manufacturing executive: "They provide more services for their people. They may not have more than we do, but they seem to make better use of what they have." Ilus ("Ike") Davis, former mayor of Kansas City, adds: "Europeans in some ways have made a better adjustment to living together in cities than we have. They have found a compromise between respect for and use of the craftsman and the need for mass-produced goods. They have developed a reserve which makes living together more bearable...