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Somehow, practically the entire plot of Put Them All Together involves the efforts of a precious 29-year-old fop to rid himself of his mother's apron strings by sharing his bed with her attractive nurse. To varying degrees, the rest of his family approves of his venture, and forms a cheering section outside his bedroom door. Overnight a remarkable change takes place: by dawn the young man has shed his drab finales and pale timidity for a West Coast sport coat and a jut-jawed aggressiveness. This action is marked by an exchange of witticisms which in places...
...turncoat libertine, Charles Surface, D. T. Sullivan tends to fall into the trap of letting the stylized presentation of the play color his performance too much. Charles is a profligate but he would add better conrtast to the play if he were not a fop...
Unfortunately the men in the production do not meet this standard. Arthur Townsend, in a brief appearance, plays as a fop a role which would be more effective done stolidly. And Pirio Macdonald Tutchings, as Catherine's lover, has a good stage voice, but such unconvincing gestures and lack of dash that his performance is negative. As Catherine's father, however, Edward Golden is the exception. He is sarcastic, cruel, and kind as the part demands and yet has developed these contrasting elements into a consistent character...
...yacht, a grand house in Cadogan Square, a wife, a mistress, and the friendship of such contemporaries as H. G. Wells, Joseph Conrad, Somerset Maugham, Lord Beaverbrook, Bernard Shaw. During his lifetime, his love of good clothes and good living gave Bennett a reputation as a fop, a popular caricature which the publication of his Journal in 1932-33 did little to change. Biographer Pound now takes a look behind the dandyism, the snobbishness and the preoccupation with money, and finds them the defenses of a suddenly successful man from the pottery towns of Staffordshire against a world he never...
...however, Henry was getting weary of the swim, and he tried to trouble the fashionable waters with his first play, Love in Several Masques, a deft little comedy of London manners. An excerpt from the conversation of a Fielding fop...