Word: cyril
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...awfully necessary for me to keep busy," says Australian-born Cyril Ritchard. one of the most resourceful actors and directors in show business. "I can't bear to be out of work. I'm stagestruck, I love variety and I cannot say no." To ward off purely imagined signs of creeping inactivity, peripatetic Actor Ritchard last week said yes to a new broadcasting venture: hosting "the best of BBC dramas" (daily at 2 p.m.) over Manhattan's city-owned, high-toned station WNYC...
...Cyril Ritchard Theater, designed to give radio drama a chance for a comeback against heavy TV odds, kicked off with a tape of Richard (High Wind in Jamaica] Hughes's 1924 play Danger, the first radio play ever produced. Though it was a disappointing debut ("A number of those English accents are so phony, you know," explains Ritchard), the balance of the first week's plays bore out the host's claim to a "varied diet" of entertainment. "The show has no rigid format," says Ritchard, "for there is always an audience for anything provocative, intelligent...
Simply Drifting. Ritchard might well have been describing Ritchard. As a highly flexible Superman of the arts, big (6 ft. 2 in., 194 Ibs.), urbane Cyril Ritchard is also the fey earth visitor (and director) of Broadway's hit play A Visit to a Small Planet, a sort of personal gilly for his neat bag of vaudevillian's tricks. This spring, between performances, he made flying trips cross-country to play the leading comedy role in the Metropolitan Opera's Gilbert-and-Sullivanish souffle, La Périchole, which he also staged. "I sound like a sick...
Beginning tomorrow, the first speaker for morning prayers will be Professor William Y. Elliot; on July 3 and 5 Professor Cyril G. Sargent will speak followed on July 8, 9, and 10 by The Reverend John H. Leamon. Professor Samuel H. Beer will speak July 11 and 12; The Reverend E. Spencer Parsons on July 15, 16, and 17; and Mr. John U. Munro on July 19, and 19. President Frederick May Eliot of the American Unitarian Association will speak July 22 through July 24. Professor G. Wallace Woodworth will speak July 25 and 26; and The Reverend C. Howard...
Carmen Capalbo's staging, like the acting, is wholly in the service of the play. Irish Actor Cyril Cusack is richly humorous and yet realistic as Josie's sly, disreputable father. At his best, Franchot Tone is a memorably quiet Jim. Wendy Hiller, not seen on Broadway since The Heiress, again gives a beautiful performance, again raises, through no fault of her own, a small demur. Glowingly vital and magnetic, Actress Hiller could never really quite seem a colorless, mousy heiress, nor seems now an oversized half-freak. Her acting brings some of its most resonant moments...