Word: grandes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...played Shaw, and Cavada Humphrey (who recently became Mrs. Kilty) the actress--both forceful and faultless performances, carefully staged with appropriate lighting and background music. The whole show pointed up the gravity of the theatre's loss between 1940 and 1950 of these letter-writers, two great hearts and grand souls...
...highlights of the entire production is John Graef as Don Alhambra, the Grand Inquisitor. With Graef's rich voice, excellent enunciation, and unctuously sinister air, it is difficult to imagine more perfect casting...
...Long Island's still plush jackets-for-dinner resort, cast a glance back to an earlier generation of summering painters by staging a retrospective of more than 100 turn-of-the-century paintings by the late William Merritt Chase. A friend of Whistler and a dandy in the grand style, Chase inspired his students with his enthusiasms for Velasquez, Frans Hals, Chardin and Japanese printmakers, awed his contemporaries with his exotic, cluttered studios, fez-topped black servants, white wolfhounds and mighty oaths ("My God! I'd rather go to Europe than to Heaven!"). His styles became as varied...
...Revolutionary-era shops leading off Independence Hall, and Thomas Edison Square, showing the world as it was before and after the light dawned. Then comes Scienceland, New Orleans Square and a 300-ft. "tunnel" along Disneyland's railroad route that will show three-dimensional views of the Grand Canyon. As a Disney associate says: "By the time Walt gets through, this will not only be the seventh wonder of the world, but the eighth, ninth and tenth as well...
Birdlime in a Dell. It sounds like dismal stuff, but from the first lines of this play the Irish language contrasts with modern stage English as a cage of songbirds contrasts with a yardful of hens, and the reader is quickly caught in a Grand McGuignol of fatalist humor. Like Koestler, rumpled, mountainous Author Behan, 34, knows prison bars from the inside; he was sentenced in his teens to an English reformatory for dropping I.R.A. explosives into London mailboxes, has spent in all eight years in prison for assorted violence on behalf of Irish freedom. His dialogue flourishes with...