Word: byplay
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Most crucially, doing proper justice to the 20-odd numbers nine times a week could only leave her voice in shreds; hence she has to pipe down, to substitute byplay on the actress' part for brio on the singer's. She is always personally pleasing, and sometimes more; but At Home with Ethel Waters finds Ethel Waters insufficiently at home with her material...
Curtain Up (J. Arthur Rank; Fine Arts) gets some comic byplay out of the rehearsal of a play by a British rural repertory company. The play itself is a rather improbable confection called Tarnished Gold, in which most of the characters seem to be named Jeffrey and Reggie and most of the dialogue seems to consist of "dahling" and "deah boy." Rehearsals are almost at a standstill because the aggressive authoress (Margaret Rutherford) is at loggerheads with the director (Robert Morley), who is at odds with the cast and crew. Additional complications set in when the director falls into...
...Turks on shore made a great racket sawing wood, banging with hammers and clunking empty oil drums together. In their enthusiasm, several Turks fell into the river. Although they failed to draw enemy fire from the opposite bank, the Turks, who take soldiering seriously, refused to admit that the byplay had been sport. Said their commander, Captain Nihw Evren: "The men understood that what they did was as important as the actual crossing. They were as agitated as if it had been...
Lyricist Lerner's script touches up the story with such humorous byplay as a sly spoof of etiquette in a London pub on the eve of the royal wedding. It also gives Comedian Keenan Wynn a chance to shine in the double role of a brash, slang-spewing Broadway agent and the Oxford-accented twin...
...Byplay is provided by a love affair between an old man (Milton Schlein '53) and an old woman who are too old to be affected by the movement. Finally the "goddess of peace" (Alice Walsh '52) comes down to earth and restores peace, thus making the protest demonstration unnecessary...