Word: goer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mary Martin's first stage appearance since "One Touch of Venus" is a welcome one. Although her voice is not strong, her charm and personality, to revive two senile cliches, serve to make convincing a role which no modern theatre-goer can view without twinges of skepticism. Yul Brynner, still handicapped by a notice able accent, does his best opposite Miss Martin in a somewhat sterile part. The other 45 actors named in the program are mainly character bit players who are competent but have little chance to become outstanding; perhaps Rex O'Mailey was most noticeable because...
...majority of Moliere was intended primarily as satire of the seventeenth century French court. As such, his comedies are among the greatest ever written. They satirize, however, a target completely insignificant to modern audiences, and they satirize it with humor typically French and almost entirely unintelligible to the theatre goer of today...
Every character is a well known symbol--the befuddled liberal (Tracy), the reactionary clubbish business man, the intellectual Jew, the American Legion bartender. The dialogue has been so widely used it should be a familiar acquaintance of every theatre goer the eulogy on the meaning of democracy, the reminiscence over 'how we first met," the confused self-analysis while wandering in and out of a maze of chaises lounges...
...Jack Garner" grey hat (7⅜) and plunked it on a reporter's head. He pinned an Eagle badge on a Boy Scout, shook hands with everybody who offered his. In the packed hotel lobby, he moved about, chatting with the easy informality of a veteran convention-goer. No one was awed by the U.S. President. He was still chewing...
Produced with skill, staged with originality, and played with a rare combination of power and understanding, the Theatre Guild's current production of Shakespeare's "Othello" must go down on every theatre goer's list as a masterpiece of writing, directing, and acting...