Word: dudgeons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dick Dudgeon, the imposturing knave of the title, Actor Douglas gnashes his teeth - as well as the arch dialogue -and looks less like the male Candida that Shaw intended than like a Sportin' Life in tights. Actor Lancaster, as the local parson, glooms away Shaw's most romantic scenes as if he were lost on a Brontë moor. In a climactic scene of comic derring-do, ex-Acrobat Lancaster makes heroic hash of a colonial court house and all the Redcoats in it. Otherwise he is as stiff and starchy as the clerical collar he eventually gives...
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...reported that Lady Beatty spatted with Sinatra and "drove off in a Huff [Nov. 10]." It was not a Huff, but a Dudgeon. It is easy to understand how this mistake was made. It was not one of the old-model high Dudgeons, but one of the new low ones, which are frequently mistaken for Huffs, particularly when there is any fog about. I am quite sure of the facts in this matter, as I happened to be driving by in my 1958 Dilemma at the time...
Butler's explosion shed light on one fact: at the moment, no important Southern Democrat was ready to go so far as to leave the party in high dudgeon...
...sharp-tongued fledgling of the novel becomes, despite David Wayne's attractive playing, somebody far less individual on the stage. The show is most fun as a kind of production trek-producers' offices, lady stars (Vivian Elaine), auditions, rehearsals, feuds, hotel rooms. With the high dudgeon and the low language, with much of the action reduced to caricature and much of the dialogue delivered in wisecracks, even what is not authentic show business makes breezy vaudeville. Really fresh and funny is a very young coproducer, a long-on-argot but short-on-savvy brat-about-town, delightfully played...