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...HENRY IV by LUIGI PIRANDELLO
...writer. Their tendency is to approach him with excessive reverence, especially since his great theme concerns the intellectually intriguing question of the impermanence of identity-a series of masks that men put on and take off without fully realizing what they are up to. Of all his plays, Henry IV is the least-often produced and the most-often referred to as his masterpiece. This stately revival suggests plenty of reasons for the former condition, few for the latter contention-and may even tempt revaluation of his status in the modern theatrical pantheon...
...Harrison's agile mind and supple body have congealed into a sort of rep-company regality. The querulous eccentricity that has illuminated and humanized his portrayals of kings, popes and other men of power in the past is missing here. After the first Broadway production of Henry IV (1924), Critic Stark Young suggested that it might simply be beyond the power of Anglo-Saxon actors. Maybe so. But the impression now irresistibly arises that this is one antique that has not withstood the test of time...
CENTRAL CINEMA II Phantom India, parts I to IV, 8 (Sat 4 pm). Starts following SUN: Phantom India, parts...
Raffish. Miles' appearance was a star turn. Alternately sobbing and indignant, she seemed to transfix the courtroom spectators and the seven-person jury. Justice of the Peace Mulford Winsor IV, a plumber when he is not sitting on the bench, was so unnerved that he had to start the oath twice...