Word: characterized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Major Desmond Ferneaux-Lightfoot, D.S.O., of His Majesty's .Brigade of Guards, fascinated Harriet because his character was so mixed. Snootily correct in his brilliant uniform, free-&-easy in old country clothes, Desmond's "animal eyes" made him a scary lover, but he had a wonderfully gentle way...
From the viewpoint of the eldest daughter, the affection of Mama for her family is a very real thing --and so it is presented. The plot closely approaches soap-opera funny business in places, but any hokum is carefully avoided by careful character delineation and a constant vote of the...
Miss Cornell and her husband shot for the stars when they put this work on their always ambitious schedule. "Antony" has never been a success other than artistically, and the acting and staging problems it presents are brutal. The episodic nature of the action, the impossibility of getting across where...
Wide-Open Cow Town. The Kansas City on which Roy Roberts shines has changed in appearance only slightly in recent years, but it has changed its character considerably. Kansas City grew big and rich on the nation's appetite for meat and bread and for the West's...
Faith Undebased. The strongest element in Beatrice's mixed character was her piety. She gave allegiance to no church ("Jesus," she said, "seems to me . . . perhaps, not the most perfect embodiment of the ideal of faith"), but she loved nothing better than to pray in St. Paul's...