Word: dauphines
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Studio One (Mon. 10 p.m., CBS). Claude Dauphin in Cardinal Mindszenty...
...Butler's star rises, that of Eden's, the party dauphin, falls. Should Churchill step aside soon, the betting is that Eden would succeed him-but if Churchill stays on for two years, Rab Butler might well be his heir. Churchill is muttering that he might retire after Queen Elizabeth's coronation, which this week was set for June 2, 1953. Churchill himself has had some downs as well as ups. Some Tories grumble that he has been too arbitrary and too heedless of getting the public behind him. Yet he is still capable of rising...
Anthony Eden - "my trusted deputy," as Churchill has pointedly called him- is now the designated dauphin of the party. There is a view widely held among Tories that Churchill, whose health is uncertain and who needs rest, might not stay more than a year or so in office if elected. Then, having given the impulsion of his prestige and authority to the re-establishment of the British international position, he might hand over the reins to Eden...
...dramatic creation, Joan herself scarcely comes off. Shaw sought to make her real by making her realistic, by having her talk patois and slang and call the Dauphin "Charlie." But by making her so much like other people, he did not lessen her mystery; he merely weakened her magnetism...
...making them appear in the least unnatural. Shaw, in his stage directions, describes Joan as a coarse, dumpy little peasant and Miss Hagen was quite beautiful but I suppose this shouldn't be held against her. John Buckmaster would have gained my unbridled huzzahs for his performance as the Dauphin had he not spoken in such a distinctly British manner--something incongruous for a French monarch...