Word: caste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...afternoon, he will show a visitor about his property, explaining sculptured works in a soft, eager voice almost denuded of its Yorkshire burr, describing with a loving caress along a bronze flank why it takes two or three weeks of rubbing, gouging, sanding and polishing to finish a freshly cast figure: "It's the putting on of skin." In a corner of the studio is the figure whose making reminded him of the days he rubbed his mother's aching shoulder...
...Gwenn, 83, British-born actor who for the last couple of decades invariably played the roles of kindly, puckish old men, won the 1947 Academy Award for best supporting actor as a benign Santa Claus in Miracle on 34th Street, was a close friend of George Bernard Shaw, who cast him in many of his plays in the early 1900s; in Woodland Hills, Calif...
...that there are no snobs in foxholes, or even in barracks on the first day of basic training. Immediate buddyhood is established among Sal Mineo, a jivey cat from Manhattan's Lower East Side; Barry Coe, an Ivy sort from Glen Cove, L.I.; and Gary Crosby, who is cast as a rich Oregon rancher's son but manages to mug, wheeze and groan like a Bing from another planet...
George Rose's booming and Falstaffian Dogberry was definitive. Hurd Hatfield was perfectly cast as the villainous Don John, and Micheal MacLiammoir was a laudable Don Pedro. In several of the other roles, especially female, the performers were not up to Gielgud's demands...
...antithetical to pity. Pity is indecisive; in awe there is no escape." In stripping Blanche DuBois of her nobility and routing out all traces of pity for her, Rabb distorted the play out of all proportion. As Blanche, Cavada Humphrey fought a losing battle, and was the only cast member even to attempt mastering a Southern accent. Robert Blackburn's Stanley was not animalistic enough, but Chase Crosley made him a sweet wife. The best part of the production was the set, with its half dozen gaudy, flashing neon signs...