Word: drunkards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From temperance club to neighborhood pub, these heart-searing words have echoed in countless performances since they were put down more than a century ago by an actor named William Sedley and picked up by P. T. Barnum, first big producer of The Drunkard, or The Fallen Saved. Last week The Drunkard's lachrymose prose reverberated no more in Los Angeles, where the show was revived in 1933 at the small, stucco Theatre Mart and reeled on for the longest run in U.S. theatrical history: 9,477 performances. The play was a victim of exhaustion and the local fire...
...show, jeer its four sneering villains, cheer its seven winning heroes. The customers also downed 5,700,000 bottles of free beer, ate 3,000,000 sandwiches. A sort of Everylush that chronicles the progress of evil as it pickles its weak title character, The Drunkard turned the Theatre Mart into a favorite resort for W. C. Fields, Mae West, Lily Pons. Though the playhouse has been put on the block, there is a chance that The Drunkard may survive for one last fling. Its producer hopes to have the company tour the U.S. and culture-thirsty foreign lands...
...four characters in The Glass Menagerie, the other of Tennessee Williams' two great plays, captured only some of the work's beautiful subtlety and fragility. Once again, the best job was turned in by Frank Langella as the son Tom. The Playhouse then resurrected the famous 1844 play The Drunkard; or, The Fallen Saved, "a moral domestic drama by W. H. Smith and a Gentleman." Marilyn Miller staged the work in period costume and old-school ham acting style; and the result was unflaggingly hilarious. Booing, hissing, and the throwing of peanuts were actively encouraged. A pianist furnished background accompaniment...
...Severn strode, The rolling English drunkard made...
...guests. But in the end she realized that she could never possess him as other women possess their men. "He was a selfish, egotistical, self-indulgent man who loved nothing but humanity . . . She had been unlucky. She could have loved a gambler, an opium addict, a common thief, a drunkard-but no, it had to be an idealist...