Word: electras
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...Mourning Becomes Electra...
...Mourning Becomes Electra...
...Hucksters). William Powell was called best actor for Life with Father and The Senator Was Indiscreet. The National Board of Review picked Britain's Michael Redgrave for his playing of Orin in Dudley Nichols' Hollywood-made production of Eugene O'Neill's Mourning Becomes Electra; and Britain's Celia Johnson (who got the prize last year from Manhattan critics) for This Happy Breed...
...block for male impersonators in the opera, went well at her hands. Naney Trickey was excellent in the part of Ilia, fulfilling particularly well the difficult assignment of holding the stage alone for more than five minutes at the start of the opera. In the role of the sinister Electra, who has the best aria of the piece, a magnificent last-act preface to suicide, Paula Lenchner looked evil but sang with only moderate control and acted rather clumsily. The one big disappointment of the day was Joseph Laderoute, who was weak and unimpressive as Idomeneo...
Mourning Becomes Electra. A cinemagnification of Eugene O'Neill's tragedy of incest; with Rosalind Russell and Michael Redgrave (TIME...