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Other members of the cast are Mikel Lambert, who was seen recently as Cordelia in King Lear; Marguerite Tarrant, who was the leading lady in the Harvard Drmatic Club's production of The Lady's Not for Burning; and Erich Segal, known for his roles in Hasty Pudding Theatricals productions...
McGonigle took the finance job on condition that he never be named for elective office. But one evening in March, while he and wife Cordelia munched homemade gingerbread and gulped raspberry Jell-O in the kitchen of their Sinking Spring home outside Reading, the telephone rang. Casting about for a fresh face for this year's political war, the G.O.P. steering committee had chosen his as the freshest. McGonigle accepted, then began beating across Pennsylvania in a tan Oldsmobile station wagon to make the face better known and to express outspoken views; e.g., he would, as governor, veto...
...evening his performance is unbeatable. Scott brings out the wry eerieness of the mad Lear beautifully, without indulging in the cheaper kind of shock effects. He is even better in the pathos and grandeur of the last scenes, in which he is nicely complemented by Mikel Lambert's Cordelia...
...tragedy of genius is that there is no way of judging whether it is real or illusory. When father Aubrey, for instance, takes balloons and other airborne things quite seriously, even his best friends fear that he will go round the bend unless he takes a complete rest. Misguided Cordelia, on the other hand, is believed by her schoolteacher to be an infant prodigy. Obsessed with convictions of her own genius, she fiddles madly before audiences of ardent ignoramuses. When at last a tough old professional assures her that she is no good and never will be, Cordelia runs...
...attempt, My Philadelphia Father got pommeled and knocked about like one of Biddle's sparring partners, and Biddle himself at times got kept out of sight in his corner. The whole play takes place in 1916-17, and the stage action centers on Cordelia's engagement and marriage to Tobacco Heir Angier Duke. Angier, seemingly a weak and timid mouse, slowly emerges as a tough little rooster with a mind-and a body-of his own. And Angier's sharp-tongued Southern mother seems at times less like a North Carolina Duke than an Alabama Bankhead...