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...Olive Dunbar made a wonderfully warm and pathetic Mrs. Loman. She was fine all the way through until her closing monologue in the Requiem, which proved a bit too much for her. Robert Evans '59 and Robert Blackburn were a fine pair of errant sons; and John Peters '52 made a splendidly materialistic Uncle...
...half-educated entrance into high society. In this Miss Harris was perfect. Her conversation and accent, a mixture of her own flower-girl experience and the teaching of Professor Higgins, carried the one-sided conversation to a hilarious and colorful climax. She was ably assisted in this by Olive Dunbar as Mrs. Eynsford Hill, and Joyce Ebert as her daughter, whose wonderful indignant facial expression added a great deal of amusement to the overall scene. Cavada Humphrey, as Higgins' mother, played the Victorian matriarch to the hilt. Higgins' colleague, Pickering, was adroitly played by Robert Blackburn...
Laurinda Barrett makes an admirable Portia, in both the latter's personae; and Olive Dunbar is a model Nerissa. Joyce Ebert's Jessica is attractive but vocally uneven...
...lever, and Biff, her oldest son, at the other end. She is the agent whereby the audience gains emotional entrance to the dramatic situation. Her sanity and sense of life amid the tragedy give a sense of reality to the maelstrom about her. Olive Dunbar gives a distinguished performance in this role. She exhibits superb control and dramatic sense...
...although the individual performances in this production are memorable, especially those of Miss Dunbar and Mr. Hill, the large credit for its overall excellence belongs with the director. He gives the play unity, motion, and best of all, the sense so often lost that the actors really are speaking to each other--the essence of drama...