Word: humphrey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week from bargaining sessions, flown to Pittsburgh for a private talk with Vice President Nixon. McDonald pleaded for government help to break the deadlock. He remembered the record 62½? , three-year wage package won by the steelworkers in 1956 after Labor Secretary James Mitchell and Treasury Secretary George Humphrey pressured management, knew that this time both Nixon and Mitchell were anxious to see a no-strike settlement. But the Administration stuck firmly to its hands-off policy. When President Eisenhower later renewed his earlier plea for an indefinite extension of bargaining, Dave McDonald wearily turned it down, announced that...
...Cavada Humphrey, an excellent and versatile actress, gives us Blanche as Mr. Rabb describes her but hardly as Mr. Williams does. She is vulnerable all right, but there is no love or tenderness in this Blanche. A dimension has been omitted. What should be a woman desperate for love, protection, and security is merely a woman desperate for sex. As conceived by Mr. Rabb, it is difficult to imagine Blanche's remaining faithful even to Mitch, her Rosenkavalier, the man she wants so desperately to marry...
...woman with a sincere desire to escape from her past and begin life anew with the security of marriage. Likewise, the scene with the young bill collector is completely lacking in lyric quality and only the primitive element is played. The way in which Miss Humphrey delivers, "I've got to be good--and keep my hands off children," using her lower register and a drunken slur, is strongly reminiscent of Tallulah Bankhead. There is nothing gossamer here...
...Miss Humphrey's performance, within the range of Mr. Rabb's interpretation, is carefully etched and compellingly played. Her drunk scene with Mitch towards the end of Act II is excellent. Standing in the middle of a large brass bed, she cries out her soul like an hysterical child, desperately pleading for magic magic, not realism. She can give you the virgin-like innocence of a child one minute and the drunken swagger of a two-bit slut the next. There is a fine Blanche latent here! There are some strang inflections and an unusual clipped speech that often give...
Chase Crosley makes a sweet and loving Stella. As a matter of fact, she seems to be the only character who is allowed to have any compassion for anything. Sydney Sturgess and Ralph Drischell provide some humorous moments, particularly in their raucous offstage fight, which is highlighted by Miss Humphrey's perfectly timed question, "Did he kill...