Word: homeness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...scenery was designed for an earlier production at Glyndebourne and has merely been adapted to the Metropolitan stage. Scaling up a small set doesn't always work at the Met and the second act decor, the boudoir of the Contessa, looks like an oversized parlor of an English country home...
...freshmen on the field" manuever--an old custom that this year's newcomers have been trying to perpetuate without any notable efficiency--the Penn spectators took up the various Quaker cheers and chants, which freshmen must learn religiously. The entire proceedings resembled the Friday night game back home all too closely...
...When you go into a Spanish home, the master of the house always says, 'Vuestra la casa'--this is your house," he said. "I've always felt that way about students who come to my office." He is at work every day from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., and his desk is always piled with books and papers...
...second part of The Glass Menagerie a Gentleman Caller finally enters the Wingfield home in a St. Louis slum, after half an evening of preparation for him, and is left alone with the crippled, morbidly shy young girl he had been invited there to meet. Trying to interest him in the collection of little glass animals that is her only solace, she offers him her favorite, saying, "Here's an example of one, if you care to see it." In the current H.D.C. production, she takes at this moment a quick, frightened, intensely poignant glance...
Mary Grayon is almost ideally cast as the nervously talkative mother, whose busy lack of understanding makes home unbearable for the children she loves. Miss Graydon's slim figure is adroitly made pathetic by the dresses Angela Brown has hung on her; and the break in her voice keeps always alive a sense that this woman lies on the edge of desperation. Moreover (much moreover), she is equal as an actress to the demands of the part--which is vastly more than can be said for anyone else I can think of in Cambridge. Her fluttery hand-gestures, her nods...