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...those rows of clothes hanging in corridors and the whole atmosphere. . . ." From then on it was only a question of what kind of actress she would be. Her father advised her to go all out for musical comedy: "You can always go into serious theater later . . . after all, Edith Evans didn't start till she was 30." He may have been thinking that her gangling height might hinder her as a serious actress; Vanessa is 5 ft. 101 in., taller than many leading men. It was something she worried about too. Once, recalls Lady Redgrave, Vanessa telephoned...
...style that offers everything from mad little chases in vintage jalopies to the acrobatics of human flies, from reunions of long-lost sons and ruined fathers to the machinations of a rascally banker whose ill-gotten capital gains keep Judex awake nights. So does the banker's daughter (Edith Scob), a lovely wisp of a heroine. All crumpled organdy and helplessness yet clearly indestructible, she is drugged, chloroformed, kidnaped, nearly impaled on a hatpin, and at one point must be pulled out of the river after a prolonged dunking that would have drowned a plainer girl. Most...
...Romeo who sounds like a world-weary anti-hero out of Chekhov. Claire Bloom is girlishly gigglish; yet Shakespeare's Juliet is young only in years, and packs a woman's wiles in a woman's body. The lovers are upstaged by the nurse, Dame Edith Evans, a paragon of timing, inflection and character immersion who could teach Finney and Bloom a thing or three about Shakespearean acting...
...jury returned a sizable verdict for Edith Soronen, and the defendants appealed. A tavern may be liable to an innocent third person injured by a drunk whom it has helped to tank up, but must it also be its pickled brother's keeper? defendants asked. Yes, the New Jersey Supreme Court said last week. "Contributory negligence is not available as a defense to a liquor licensee who has sold alcoholic beverages to a visibly intoxicated person." Quoting a lower court approvingly, Judge Nathan Jacobs said that the law barring sales to drunks would be "meaningless, if a tavernkeeper could...
DVORAK: CONCERTO FOR VIOLIN AND ORCHESTRA (Deutsche Grammophon). Filled with Slav melodies and sharp folk rhythms, Dvorak's only violin concerto is nevertheless grandly designed, and is given a spirited, full-bodied performance by Edith Peinemann, a 29-year-old German violinist with a singing tone and a dancing bow. With the Czech Philharmonic...