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...good foil for Mephistopheles, and Evans handled his long monologue in the first act with superb skill. Margaret, as played by Frances Sternhagen, was a triumph of sincerity. The difficulty of the Mephistopheles role is that the devil has a thousand faces, all of which he plays to the hilt. In a way Margaret's part is even more challenging, for she must show a great development of character. To say that she convinces is praise enough...
Last week Candidate Stevenson was playing to the hilt his role of leading candidate, party peacemaker and (with all outward confidence) the certain nominee. He traveled to Bloomington, Ill. (his old home town) for a cucumber-sandwich garden party and a Fourth of July picnic...
Seldom had an author played one of his own characters so to the hilt as Fisherman Ernest Hemingway off the coast of Peru last week. To fill out the cast for the movie version of his novelette, The Old Man and the Sea, Nobelman Hemingway was angling, day after day, for a near-world-record black marlin (TIME, April 23) in one of that fish's favorite haunts, the famed Cabo Blanco deep-sea hunting ground. Ashore in the port of Talara, after a wearying day's cruise, "Papa" Hemingway not only looked like a stout version...
...only surprises Cocteau prepared for his entry into the academy, however, were his costume, an especially fancy Académie uniform tailored (by Lanvin) of midnight blue instead of the traditional green with gold braid, and his sword (by Cartier) with a hilt modeled to represent a profile of Oedipus. In his initiation speech, Cocteau turned the flow of his conversation on the Immortals with a respect tempered only gently by the old glint of satiric impertinence. "The time is coming when one will no longer be able to read or write, when a few mandarins will whimper secrets...
Message to Peking. China's Chou played his assigned role to the hilt. He was modest, retiring, spoke only when spoken to. turned away wrath with a soft answer. He let Nehru speak for him, only nodding his head gently in agreement...