Word: humphrey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Kilty himself played Shaw, and Cavada Humphrey (who recently became Mrs. Kilty) the actress--both forceful and faultless performances, carefully staged with appropriate lighting and background music. The whole show pointed up the gravity of the theatre's loss between 1940 and 1950 of these letter-writers, two great hearts and grand souls...
Cockiness for Caution. Congress' who-cares sentiment toward Ike-the-domestic-leader blossomed during the "hair-curling" Humphrey flap and the budget fight last February, as the White House delayed overlong in taking a firm stand for Administration policies (TIME, April 22). The House, including many a Republican outside the party's Old Guard, happily zeroed in on one of Eisenhower's favorite projects, the U.S. Information Agency, sliced its budget by half. The Senate crippled the Administration farm program (but rallied remarkably when Ike stood and fought for foreign...
...soon after Hollister got down to work, New York Timesman James Reston nominated him to membership in a "4-H Club" within the Administration bent on gutting foreign aid. The other members: Treasury Secretary George Humphrey (soon to resign), onetime Under Secretary of State Herbert Hoover Jr. (who resigned last winter), onetime Budget Director Rowland Hughes (who resigned last year, died three months ago). But the more hardheaded John Hollister saw of foreign aid the more he appreciated its hard-bitten value, and the less he attempted to cut down functions he once thought he might eliminate. This year...
...supporting cast includes a number of actors who deserve commendation, notably Michael Lewis as the irascible Roebuck Ramsden and Sorrell Booke as the arch-brigand Mendoza (also the Devil in the Don Juan scene). Cavada Humphrey turned in an adequate performance as the misunderstood Violet Robinson, as did Robert Brustein and Thomas Hill as her husband and father-in-law respectively. I particularly enjoyed John Wynne-Evans as Straker, Tanner's Cockney chauffeur...
...Most people will list a great voice and a good-looking body," he said. "But the greater performers have lacked one or both of these--David Garrick, Edmund Kean, Eleanora Duse, Pauline Lord and Helen Hayes, for example." In the movies, even such "good but not great actors" as Humphrey Bogart, Spencer Tracy, Clark Gable and John Garfield were not able to get anything but villain roles for a long, long time...