Word: foils
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Small, lackadaisical Roland Young emigrated from London 20 years ago. achieved his greatest stage success in Rollo's Wild Oat, a play written by his mother-in-law, Clare Kummer. In the cinema, Young is usually a chipper menace, a sleek eccentric drunkard, or a patrician foil for some more homespun leading man. In private life, he is a collector of penguins in books, pictures and statuary, which he maintains in the penguin room of his Hollywood home. Of penguins he says: "I like them because they are different. ... I am going to spend lots of time studying penguins...
...favorites in New York and it has lost none of its charm on its way to Boston. Although it is more serious than most of Philip Barry's plays, the delicacy of presentation so typical of his work, is never submerged. In fact this very seriousness acts as a foil to the witticisms of John El dredge, who puts on a most delightful performance in his minor part. The characters in this eternal triangle, are played by Zeta Johann, Glenn Andres, and Harvey Stephens, all of whom render excellent interpretations, although Miss Johann stands out particularly. Her surprising mobility...
...entire cast proved their ability last night before the end of the play. Marjorie Lytell as Peggy, the outspoken daughter of the "lady from Dubugue", and Robert Foulk as Jake, add variety to the scene by their physical and vocal contrast. The personable Miss Lytell was an excellent foil for the thoroughly different beauty of Gloria Holden. Roman Bohnen played the role of Hippolitus Lomi with remarkable conservatism, considering the opportunities offered for burlesque by the character of fortune-hunting Frenchmen. Even Eddie Wragge as the youthful Wilbur, was effective, luckily free from most of the usual failings of children...
...Subscribers to Metals & Alloys, magazine for metallurgical engineers, found the current issue bound within a cover of real aluminum, cold rolled to 2/1.000 in. thickness. The publishers stated that other magazines had appeared with metal foil applied to paper, but never before with a cover of rolled metal. Future issues may be bound in lead, copper, nickel, brass, steel, zinc, molybdenum if manufacturers can be induced to follow the example of Aluminum Co. of America and donate the metal...
Ellen Terry's letters to Shaw, hardly ever as long, as funny, as well-turned as his, are surprisingly human, touchingly wise. They serve as an excellent foil to the Shavian epistolary brilliance. And she brought out in the "inhuman" Shaw a side his readers and audiences have not often seen, a side of him which was uppermost when he wrote this last tribute to her memory: "She became a legend in her old age; but of that I have nothing to say; for we did not meet, and, except for a few broken letters, did not write...