Word: elinore
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ELINOR GLYN (348 pp.)-Anthony Glyn-Doubleday...
Palomobo's poem gained in the presentation. Robert Beatey as Oedipus, and Elinor Fuchs as a sympathetically obscure Sphinx delivered their lines with a casual dignity which saved the play from any traces of pomposity. The language was pleasantly straight-forward and graceful, and the theme of Oedipus before the crossroads was interesting enough to carry the piece...
...main fuel for glow is a trio of principal players: Elinor Fuchs as a warm, vain and fading actress, Wendy Mackenzie as an ingenuous country girl who becomes more or less great in betrayal, and Andre Gregory, playing an author whose weakness and fine sensibilities combine to ruin lives. These three set a hard mark for the rest with thoughtful portrayals designed intelligently to develop and exploit the respective characters. Especially in Gregory's case one sees how his characterization during the early, seemingly unimportant scenes, is a well calculated build-up to his later scenes. All three deserve more...
...Scott's great persuasions against the limitations of the HDC's Lady Sneerwell and you see why the play's balance has been upset. Mary Anne Goldsmith only now and then gives signs of the genuine, luxuriant wickedness which marks Sneerwell. For this wholesale slandering, the production looks to Elinor Fuchs as Mrs. Candour. Looking like a malignant Bea Lillie, Miss Fuchs deals in double-dealing, and very adroitly. Andre Gregory, as the hypocritical Joseph Surface, matches Miss Fuchs' high standard of lowness and holds his own in the fast company of Scandal's College...
...members are: Elinor Bronson of Holmes Hall and Yakima, Washington (English); Charlette T. DeMont of Briggs Hall and Glenridge, New Jersey (Economics); Elinor C. Fuchs of Bertram Hall and Washington, D.C. (History and Literature); Botsy C. Ross of Briggs Hall and New York City (History and Literature); and Sally F. Wiseley of Barnard Hall and New York City (History and Literature...