Word: homewards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...actor Tony Perkins (Look Homeward, Angel) is doubtless quoted correctly in stating, "I've never studied acting" [Dec. 9], if he meant the formal study of the art. However, your readers will probably be interested to know that in his three years as an English major at Rollins College, he appeared in many plays under the very able direction of Professor Howard Bailey...
...Look Homeward, Angel (adapted from Thomas Wolfe's novel by Ketti Frings). Few novels of any size or importance can be transferred to the stage without forfeiting an amplitude that is half their strength, a personal accent that is half their essence. Look Homeward, Angel is one of the few, and the reason is clear enough: the novel's amplitude is often the sheerest excess, its personal accent the most rioting rhetoric. For all Wolfe's great gifts, his novel was too often diminished by a craving for size, impoverished by an orgy of word-spending, made...
...exceedingly effective play is not Wolfe's novel miraculously purged of all its faults and yet preserving all its fullness. It could not be, and in a certain sense the play is not Look Homeward, Angel at all. It is neater, smaller, simpler -a workable family play, set against a background of the family boarding house and squeezed into a few weeks' time. In one respect, something has been lost: the characters are no longer so fully and revealingly lived with, hence so expressive or large. In another respect, something has been blurred: there is a lessened thematic...
What gives Look Homeward, Angel a vitality laced with truth is how much the Gants seem an actual family, at once riveted and riven-far more than Eugene's romance with a boarder (Frances Hyland) seems an authentic love affair. The long-borne inner tensions snap when at last Eugene turns on his mother-hair-raisingly in Anthony Perkins' performance-for the way she has used and fettered her children...
...contract for Look Homeward, Angel will allow him to leave the show next June if he wants to. If Perkins decides to quit, he will not lack for employment. One likely job: playing Gene in a Paramount production of the Wolfe novel. Another possibility: bringing to life the bewildered young romantics in the early books of F. Scott Fitzgerald...