Word: cavada
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...honors went to Max Adrian, the "old, dangling" Sir Peter Teazle, and Cavada Humphrey, his young bride Lady Teazle. Adrian is a past master of timing and comic acting--a second "incomparable Max." And, as usual, it was a joy to watch Miss Humphrey's lovely carriage and to listen to her crystal-clear diction...
...teaching of Professor Higgins, carried the one-sided conversation to a hilarious and colorful climax. She was ably assisted in this by Olive Dunbar as Mrs. Eynsford Hill, and Joyce Ebert as her daughter, whose wonderful indignant facial expression added a great deal of amusement to the overall scene. Cavada Humphrey, as Higgins' mother, played the Victorian matriarch to the hilt. Higgins' colleague, Pickering, was adroitly played by Robert Blackburn...
...honors must go to Max Adrian, the "old, dangling" Sir Peter Teazle, and Cavada Humphrey, his young bride Lady Teazle. Adrian is a past master of timing and comic acting--a second "incomparable Max." And young as he is, he takes care to embody advanced age to the creakiest hip joint and most unyielding leg muscle, where the best make-up in the world is of no avail...
Kilty and Cavada Humphrey, who comprise the cast, are both actors of gleaming style. Simply sitting on their stools and reading, or playing rehearsal scenes with books in hand, they are more truly theatrical than many stagesful of ranting Roscii...
Kilty himself played Shaw, and Cavada Humphrey (who recently became Mrs. Kilty) the actress--both forceful and faultless performances, carefully staged with appropriate lighting and background music. The whole show pointed up the gravity of the theatre's loss between 1940 and 1950 of these letter-writers, two great hearts and grand souls...