Word: gusto
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Morgan Wheelock as Colonel of the Dragoon Guards, formerly affianced to the maidens who now long for the path of high art, run through the reams of usual fast-paced lyrics with great gusto and a fine baritone voice. And Thomas Myers is winning as the diffident duke who has joined the service to escape perpetual adulation...
...Tony Yates dies at last, after guzzling lukewarm champagne from the bottle, but not before he has shown himself tougher even than a U.S. visitor who thoughtfully retired to the more civilized climate of Texas. U.S. readers will appreciate Author Ronan's narrative gusto, his authentic, sometimes stomach-turning local color, and the chance to compare the U.S. and down-under forms of the western. Some differences spring to mind at once: Australian cowboys are called stockmen; they use 21-ft. whips rather than lariats; the noble redman of the plains is an ignoble blackfellow, i.e., aborigine; most important...
Time was when a change in political administrations meant bad news for the status quo, as new people and new policies descended on the seats of government. But in these calm days of courtesy and bi-partisanship, the old Jacksonian gusto seems to have been eclipsed by the politics of gentility. Nevertheless, the show must go on, if only to amuse the faithful. And this showmanship has been no-where more apparent recently than on Beacon Hill during the last two months, as the young Democratic Hercules, Foster Furcolo, waves his imaginary broom through the marble corridors of Boston...
...opening night music was pounded out with proper gusto by Fred Johnson. An extra amount of praise goes to Liz Stearns, who performed on short notice and directed the show. The final best critique of Miss Informed was sung by her Gretchen, "I just want to have a little fun!" Drumbeats is not much more than fun, but that's enough...
Richard Smithies plays Serebriakov with so much force and nearly boisterous gusto that even his admirable technical skill and control of such details as his hands, could not quite create a convincing aged man. The contrast to the rather pale followers who inevitably surrounded him made his polished performance slightly too heavy for the play, although he succeeded completely in any comic passages. Mij Gohr, playing his wife, was sensitive and graceful, giving a quiet impression of sensitive acting; she was also, however, a bit frozen. As Sonia, Charlotte Clark looked believable, but stood rather rigidly, often in awkward closeness...