Word: cyril
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Peter Pan close to 100% make-believe on both color and black-and-white screens. From nursery beginning through Never Land to nursery ending (adapted from Playwright James M. Barrie's sequel, Peter and Wendy). Director-Choreographer Jerome Robbins shaved away sentimentality in favor of movement and daughter; Cyril Ritchard turned Captain Hook ( "the swiniest swine of them all") into a Pirate of Penzance with a fine mixture of cringe and gusto. Of the two sponsors (total payout: $450,000), Ford made palatable its light-touch commercials; RCA tried to fob off Vaughn Monroe in a fantasy...
...Cyril and Florian, Hilarion's sidekicks, Donald Fern and William Nethercut maintained uniform quality throughout demanding roles. In the second act, for instance, they sang five ensembles in a row without losing their freshness. Fern's comic touches also contributed to the general hilarity...
...instance, between decay and worn away-most of the poems nonetheless lilt their way through the favorite Housman themes of love, war, death, courage, the transient beauty of life and the ironies of loving and leaving it. As ever, Housman is chiefly the laureate of youth. (Critic Cyril Connolly once pointed out that in 63 poems, Housman used the word "lad" 67 times.) If few of the lines from the Manuscript are memorable, they are all refreshingly unobscure, and the quatrains sing...
...chiefly memorable for Jerome Robbins' dances. Robbins is more genuinely imaginative than Barrie, and not the least bit cloying; and with his tearing Indians and tangoing pirates and stylishly prancing animals, he has contrived a succession of gay, unsugared romps. As a kind of grandly baroque Captain Hook, Cyril Ritchard demonstrates delightfully that gusto can be laced with style...
...desperation of criminals on the brink of discovery. "The thought that at any moment an indiscreet remark or a chance encounter . . . might betray us," writes Vyvyan, "was a sword of Damocles constantly hanging over our heads." In time, to make security even more certain, the boys were separated, Cyril to stay on in Germany, Vyvyan to be sent to a Jesuit school in Monaco...