Word: faults
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Because Miss Cass is a professional in every best sense, it often seems that she is the one out of step in the production; there is no doubt that she points up every other fault in the show. The rest of the cast ranges from competent to far worse, but unfortunately the former are all in minor roles. Margaret Groome, for example, as Prossy is sharp when she should be and yielding when Shaw has a point to make. Burgess, played by David Brooke, misses most of the opportunities for the broad comedy of the second...
Only a slight fault of interpretation or stiffness in acting technique separates most of the others in the cast from the standard set by the three principles. Robert Beaty understands his part as a kindly, ineffectual old man but plays him as something of a crochet and far too sharp a thinker. Colgate Salsbury lacks the proper touch of fatuous pomposity and caricature in his version of a bumptuous farm manager. But neither man is at all bad in his role. Lee Jeffries and Patricia Leathem are good at saying their lines but have done little to improve on them...
...aide Captain Harry Butcher and ex-orderly Sergeant Mickey McKeogh say it was the boss's fault the ribbons went askew that day; they had Ike properly squared away but when he moved he pulled his ribbons out of kilter. Ike's decorations in order were: the Distinguished Service Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster, the Order of the Bath, the French Legion of Honor, and a Russian decoration, the Order of Suvorov (which entitles the wearer to free rides on the Moscow subway). For ceremonially loaded chests of Ike and Zhukov...
...result of this procedure, Shulman pointed out, scholars who do work alone, and not at research centers, have extreme difficulty in receiving the information which is so valuable to their work. He said that the customs officials were doing their "best" but that certain regulations were at fault...
...this constant frenzy, in fact, that constitutes the main fault of Intimate Relations. Director Charles frank has insisted on playing every scene as wildly and loudly as possible, and has provided only7 a few calmer moments for an accentuating contrast...