Word: du
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Glass-Blowers, Du Maurier...
...story, first published in 1874, is dressed up with charming illustrations by William Pène du Bois and an intro duction in the form of a biography of Verne by Scientist Willy Ley. But there is perhaps one Oxphyxiated refugee from Quiquendone who now works for Macmillan. He is the fellow who de cided to print the book so that it must be held 90° around from the normal, so that pages must be turned from top to bottom instead of right to left. But this should not deter true lovers of the Vernacular...
...Glass-Blowers, Du Marnier...
...Glass-Blowers, Du Maurier...
Unfortunately, there is no subtlety or coherence in the acting. Bronia Stefan, as the nurse, plays too broadly. She seems to be Blanche du Bois and Maggie the Cat rolled into one, but by parodying Tennessee Williams (something Williams himself must learn to avoid) she is not playing Edward Albee. Her self-conscious and mannered acting conflicts with the play's style. A characterization, such as Ernest McKinnon's Jack, built by alternating laughing and mumbling, evokes nothing more than the character of a laugher and a mumbler. This effect may be what the actor strived...