Word: feys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even many friendly Viennese were puzzled. Some sought deep significance in the fey comedy; one critic likened Harvey to Hamlet. Moreover, Vienna, which had been proud godmother to Freudian psychiatry, barely recognized that delicate science in its U.S. version. Certainly the alienist in Harvey, who yearns for a maiden and a keg of beer under a shady maple tree, scarcely seemed in the great Viennese tradition of soul-searchers...
...Patrice (Tristan), Cocteau has placed his favorite actor, Jean Marais. Though probably not a very good actor, he serves Cocteau's requirements well enough: he is beautiful, dashing and ethereal. Nathalie (Iseult), is played by a new actress, Madeleine Sologne. The role calls for her to be a little fey, but Mlle. Sologne behaves as if she hadn't read her Master's foreward. She seems, from the beginning, to be "aware" that she is Iseult. She is also too heavily made up for so pretty a young lady and actually is more attractive when the lipstick is gone...
Jean Simmons was only 18 when she played Ophelia. She plays the sane scenes with a baffled docility, a faint aura of fey, and a tender suggestion of nascent maturity. All this may go a long way toward persuading 20th Century audiences that a young girl really could so sedulously obey a meddlesome old father, and really could lose her mind when her estranged lover killed him. She plays the mad scenes as if she had never heard that Ophelia is one of Shakespeare's most shameless tearjerkers, and as if her lovely language and her cracked, ribald little...
...herself. But her answer showed that the artist had forgotten neither her British background nor her Irish wit. The lady in question, she replied, "lived highly respected, and is still remembered as the 'better half of poor Colonel Partridge. When she died the neighbors sighed, 'She was fey but she was county...
...Audacity. In 1939, roly-poly Terry Fahye, then going under the name of Bennett-Fey, was banned by the New York Supreme Court from trading in securities in New York. Four years later he turned up as "a war contract broker" in Washington's famed "House on R Street" inquiry (TIME, May 15, 1943). In 1944 New York City's late Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia accused him of being the front man for Racketeer Irving (Waxey Gordon) Wexler in deals in war surplus goods...