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...actors in this production are uniformly excellent. They all play degenerates of one sort or another, and the two most degenerate of the bunch, Lady Sneerwell and Lady Teazle, are superbly portrayed by Cavada Humphrey and Jan Farrand. The gossip-mongering fop, Sir Benjamin Backbite, is amusingly interpreted by Thayer David...
...magical Dickensian names, which are so much moreconnotative than denotative: "Mr. Podsnap," "Mr. Bob Sawyer," "Mr. Chops," "Monseigneur." He literally threw himself into the performance, with movements and gestures which seemed just what the author intended, and his voices were superb, whether he was the narrator, the young fop, the chauvinistic Englishman, the crotchety landlady, the Marquis, or the signal...
...Temple, who comes as close to making the play live as possible. Especially engaging are Jerry Kilty as Trap Door, the scoundrel, and Robert Fletcher as Laxton, the lecher. Many of the minor characters are also amusing caricatures of London town-types; one of these is Jack Dapper, the fop, played by Nick Benton (who turns up again...
...Friday Kirkland will present "The Town Fop, Sir Timothy Tawdry," directed by Herbert L. Kleinfield; and Leverett will present Farquahar's "The Recruiting Officer." Mrs. Mark deWolf How will director the Leverett production. with Thomas B. Bardos '52, Gwilyn S. Brown '51, Mark L. Goodman '53, and Christopher Hodgman '52 in the leading roles...
Cyril Ritchard, an import from England, who plays Sparkish the fop, achieves a success of a different kind. Sparkish could turn out no more than a fop, an elaborately dressed, self-conscious waver of lace handkerchiefs, but Mr. Ritchard manages by his impressive diction and equally impressive frame to give real color to Wycherley's essentially colorless character. His Sparkish is an excellent example of how a really fine actor can make something out of almost nothing...