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Combined with these, the talent of the supporting cast completes the production. As the evil-spleened, ambitions Iago, Jose Ferrer mixed humor, cunning and villainy to portray this greatest of all stage villains, and was very successful in creating an Iago that could be both Othello's friend and enemy. Margaret Webster as Emilia was as competent an actress as she is a director, and turned in one of the best supporting performances of many seasons, while Uta Hagen was both charming and beautiful in the role of Desdemona...
...neat and therapeutic: people in or on the edge of a destructive tizzy need to break something. The breakable object should be something that makes a satisfying smash, but not be so expensive or useful that the smasher feels remorse. Mr. Melville got a friend of his, Sculptress Frances Ferrer, to design him such an object. Last week Mr. Melville's smashable went on sale in Manhattan and Chicago, was snapped up by the hundreds at 50? each by citizens with breakage in their hearts. The object, named "Wackaroo," is a small (4½ inches high), idol-like, plaster...
...last fortnight, for highbrowed Dramacritic Brooks Atkinson of the New York Times to declare that he "was only mildly amused" by Charley's Aunt revived. He was almost alone in his moderation. Most of the audience achieved an uproarious release. They roared at Lord Fancourt Babberley (José Ferrer, late of The Princeton Triangle Club), who for the umphundredth time agreed to help two fellow Oxonians out of sentimental dilemmas by impersonating the aunt of one of them. And they ogled three of the prettiest baggages (Mary Mason, Phyllis Avery, Katherine Wiman) exhibited this year on a Manhattan stage...
...Christmastime. Not all Triangle show boys are out exclusively for a good time, however, and it is this type which goes out into the cold world and becomes actors, singers and directors like James Stuart, Joshua Logan, Ned Wever, Frank Chapman, Phillips Holmes, Myron McCormick, Bretaigne Windust, Jose Ferrer. These have created in the Triangle Club a small but sound tradition of showmanship which the 49th annual production -Fol-De-Rol, which began its tour...
...first-night audience gave its usual delighted applause to Fol-De-Rol's tuneful numbers, sophisticated sets and costumes, its elaborate, manfully executed dance maneuvers. It guffawed whenever possible at Alexander Hays Lehmann's well-horsed lines, admired the direction of Graduate Jose Ferrer, applauded the trouper hardihood of Actors Richard Cowdery and Richard Baer. It also enjoyed the minor accidents incidental to a Triangle Show first night: hats falling off sighing lovers, and dummy legs falling off hobbyhorses, a mob scene's mob missing its cue, spotlights searching frantically for actors bravely singing in the dark...