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...Lottic Gibson in By the Beautiful Sea, she offers the wonderful voice of her radio days, the same man hungry wistfulness, and a coarse good-humor. But a decade of plays like "Come Back, Little Sheba" and "Time of the Cuckoo" have toned down her performance, and a dimension of easy dignity takes her out of the realm of caricature. But when given half a chance Miss Booth is still very funny...
...clean, rich clarinet tone was outstanding. Russell Stanger, beginning his second season with the orchestra, conducted the work in the first two movements as if it were by Richard Strauss. Only in the last movement did conductor, orchestra, and soloists loosen up enough to capture some of the Mozartian good-humor that makes this piece a perennial favorite...
Gielgud's direction of "Love for Love" keeps the thing moving fast, and never lets the general spirit of good-humor escape. The settings, especially that of a neo-classic drawing room (with adjoining bedrooms) are as authentic as they are waggish. The play is going to be in town only a few more days. If there is plenty of time it might be a good idea to read it before going, but inability to do that should keep no one away...
...good taste, your reviewer means a good, low-down, crude 17th Century Farce whose equal can be found today in any still existent burlesque house, then I am in full agreement with him. For I am quite sure that last night's audience at Radcliffe laughed heartily at what must have seemed to them something quite close to the "Flugle Street" routines of their own experience. "And this does not mean that the Radcliffe performance should be condemned. Indeed, in many places it did certainly achieve, one way or another, the bawdy, rollicking good-humor which its author intended. That...
...less confident executive than. Franklin Roosevelt might have made the tactical blunder of adopting the attitude of most business that it was: 1) unforeseen and 2) thoroughly alarming. Equipped with a temperament to which crises are almost a necessity, Franklin Roosevelt did nothing of the sort. In high good-humor, he held the first press conference of the week in the Oval Study next his bedroom where he told an audience of ten correspondents which tooth had given him trouble the week before: "No. 3 hold, starboard side." Informed that in Uvalde, Tex. Vice President Garner had developed a kind...