Word: greasepainted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Greasepaint still behind their ears, many of the members of that community loudly deny that the Faculty should control the organization of drama at Harvard, and claim that students should be left to run their own affairs. Such an attitude ignores the realities of the present situation...
Playwright Williams' instinct for the theatrical jugular makes even this mannikin play bleed greasepaint. Elia Kazan's direction is intense, Jo Mielziner's sets are broodily menacing, and Paul Bowles's mood music shimmers. But the only unfailing source of power and passion in the play is the bravura performance of Geraldine Page. Whether she is thrashing about in bed crying for her oxygen mask after a days-long vodka-and-goofball binge or clawing apart her hired paramour's tape-recorded blackmail scheme, Actress Page is just what the character she plays fears...
Alec Guinness had arrived in the theater. Out of obscurity and a world of terrors, a faceless child with haunted eyes had rushed into a place of light; and from that night, the greasepaint stick became his lollipop. In 30 years of play acting. Alec Guinness has made himself one of the most expert living masters of his craft. On the stage he ranks with Olivier, Gielgud, Richardson, in the Big Four of British acting, and he is recognized as the most gifted character actor of the English-speaking theater. On the screen his 17 films-among them such comic...
...last week Mrs. Stevens and her seniors took over an abandoned farmhouse two miles outside town, scattered papier-mâché skulls, steer bones, toy rattlesnakes and other spooky bits and pieces in strategic places. Just before the party Principal Sallee daubed himself with black greasepaint, spattered catsup on his face and clothes and suspended himself, a rope strung beneath his arms, from the kitchen ceiling. His feet touched a floor littered with broken bottles, burlap sacks, fire chains...
...Molnar-Hammerstein plot, in particular, shows its greasepaint complexion on the screen. Billy Bigelow (Gordon MacRae) is a carnival pitchman, and what he pitches best of all is woo. Underneath his brattitude, of course, Billy is a real home-cookin' kid-just the sort of wild bull that really wants a wedding ring in his nose. And, of course, he gets one. He chases a fresh-faced little New England factory girl (Shirley Jones) so hard that she catches him. Billy has lost his carnival job, but he is too big a man to take work on a filthy...