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...actors' problems are varied. Jack Gilpin, as the young writer Treplev, and Sarah Payne as Nina, the girl who leaves him for a more successful writer and a career on the stage, simply do not generate enough excitement as the principle characters. Some of the actors cannot convincingly portray characters who are supposed to be older than they are. Frank Leupold, as the old man, Sorin, exaggerates his senility too much to be effective. Scott Munerbrook, as the successful writer Trigorin, on the other hand, looks and acts too young for the part. There were, however, two fine performances...
...minutes or so, but gradually works its way up to a brilliant intensity. Michael Smith as Max comes on weak, as if feeling out the terrain, but grows into his part after a while, gradually beginning to talk to his son instead of to the audience. Likewise, John Gilpin, as the son, Lenny, warms up slowly, but finally works into character...
Being largely a monologue, the play naturally depends heavily on its Emperor, the part first made famous by Charles Gilpin and later by Paul Robeson. The work has been a rarity hereabouts. I recall seeing only Rex Ingram's performance at the Brattle Theatre shortly after the War, and Harold Scott's at Agassiz Theatre in the mid-fifties--both admirable...
...CENTRAL CITY OPERA FESTIVAL (June 29-July 27). Back in its 19th century heyday, when gold and silver were being dug out of its mountains, Central City, Colo., was the roaring capital of "The Little Kingdom of Gilpin." Its lusty miners built a splendid stone opera house and imported their music along with beans, bacon, and mining tools. But in time the gold went out of the Golden West and Central City became a near ghost town. Then 32 years ago, the old opera house was restored...
...this reference Hunt's scholarship is off in several directions. John Gilpin was the hero of a poem by William Cowper (1731-1800). Gilpin went off in just two directions-north and south. A wealthy London draper, he sent his wife off in a chaise for a holiday in Edmonton, eight miles to the north, and agreed to follow on horseback. But he galloped right through Edmonton to Ware, nearly 15 miles beyond. Then he turned around and headed for Edmonton again, but once more he rushed through the town and ultimately arrived safely in London, where his travels...