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...amazed at the discretion with which he handled the part," says Co-Star Melvyn Douglas. "Never was there a suggestion of having overblown any sense of it." Adds Richard Dysart, who played a doctor: "The texture of that man's work! He gave Hal Ashby two or three different characters???not that varied, but different. I began to see that there was a through line for each, that they were consistent." Ashby thus had not just alternate scene readings, but at least two complete, distinctly shaded characterizations...
Take the circumstances of As the World Turns, the quintessential "coffee table" drama that is all talk. The tent-pole characters???good, decent people on whom a plot may safely be hung ?are Chris Hughes, a lawyer, and his wife Nancy. They are a sixtyish couple living out their days in trauma. Their...
...only has Playwright Barry concerned himself so far with writing about only one group of characters???the domestic equivalent of These Charming People ?but these are the only kind which attract him. To play in his two ultrasocialite comedies, Paris Bound and Holiday, was chosen the Barrys' friend Hope Williams, a smart young woman who had never set foot on the professional boards before. And his good friend Donald Ogden Stewart acted the funniest role Playwright Barry has created to date: Nick, the easy-going gentleman in Holiday who extemporized on the invention of the bottle...
Getting Married. This Theatre Guild revival of George Bernard Shaw's matrimonial polemic is well-staged, well-directed, well-acted. It presents a number of classic theatrical characters???the braggart soldier, the canny servant, the benign prelate, the worldly-wise woman. Worthiest of these folk, of course, are permitted to toss sound Shavian doctrine between themselves like a medicine ball. Mr. Shaw's sensible precept is that marriage is not a completely blessed state, but that there is no better solution for the social problems of men and women to date. His recommendations: more flexible divorce laws, more respect...
...Goldwyn-Mayer). The job of making the artificially connected episodes of Thornton Wilder's fantasy into visual drama has been done well?so well that this picture, unlike most of those based on successful books, will appeal chiefly to people who have read the story. The brightly colored insubstantial characters???the disordered old Marquesa, tormented with love for a daughter who does not like her; the novice (Raquel Torres) who could no longer see Christ clear because she loved Estaban, the letter writer; Estaban, who found the world empty when his brother Manuel died; Manuel, infatuated with La Perichole (Lily...