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...Lear was "every inch a king." He blazes through the curse of General, commands in the mad wisdom of the judgment speech, "When I do stare, see how the subject quakes." He is calamitous, never pathetic, when he asks, "Is man no more than this?" or when, with dead Cornelia in his arms, he orders the court, "Howl, howl, howl! O, you are men of stones!" Devlin's performance is virtuosi, raging through extremity of nature, enormity...
...CORNELIA MANTIUS Glendale, Ariz...
Only one person appeared on the stage of the Wilbur Monday night. Cornelia Otis Skinner performed a series of modern and historical character sketches, all written by herself. It may be difficult to imagine an actress holding the full attention of the audience for more than two hours, but Miss Skinner has all the experience and technically perfected dramatic ability to perform the feat without the lightest trouble. In the course of the evening she destroyed 19 different women, and perhaps it is praise enough to say that she was convincing in every one of her characterizations...
...famous musical-comedy star who until recently thought Carol was "too cute for words" now greets her with a frosty, feline smile. Carol loves every bit of it. The only real cloud still left on her horizon is the opinion of her dresser, who once worked for impeccable, ladylike Cornelia Otis Skinner. Says Broadway's new star: "She thinks I'm a slob...
...Houghton's oddest and choicest possessions is its theater collection, a diverse conglomeration of play manuscripts, autographs, playbills--even a clipping file on contemporary screen and stage stars. The collection's size and completeness make it a valuable source of theatrical information: Cornelia Otis Skinner did research for her book "Family Circle" there; queries along the lines of "should Macbeth be played in kilts" are always coming in. A movie company once called up from Hollywood to find out whether Jenny Lind had ever sung in some saloon in Tombstone, Arizona. (She hadn...