Word: janes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with help from a lady-Josephine Hull. But among the many promising first-timers on Broadway, there were not only Tea and Sympathy's Anderson, Via Flaminia's Alfred Hayes and End As a Man's Calder Willingham, but Louis Peterson with Take a Giant Step, Jane Bowles with In the Summer House and Julian Funt with The Magic and the Loss...
Back from World War II and faced with his and Brace's emotional bankruptcy, Dick decides that "the earth does not belong to the good, the wise or the gentle, but to the adaptable." He adapts himself to a plain Jane who wants nothing more than to give him a son and heir. But Brace has dipped too deeply into her dwindling moral capital. When a second marriage ends on the rocks, she becomes an alcoholic, finally commits suicide...
...portraits opposite and the farm and genre scenes on the following page well illustrate Walker's text. In them a plain-Jane, a complacent family, a fruitful farm and a brutal sport are presented head on, neatly and with no nonsense. Yet the girl's iron coiffure, the bilateral symmetry of the family's bird cages, the minted gold sky over the farmstead and the shoe-button eyes of the battle royal's 129 spectators are vivid touches for all their technical clumsiness...
...Ickes was 64, had that year married his second wife, Jane Dahlman Ick.es...
Though their parts afford less opportunity for satire, William White as the rival poet, and Sara-Jane Smith, as the milk-maid Patience, add some clever acting to the production. Along with excellent leads, Patience is served by a chorus of British soldiers and love-sick maidens who enthusiastically catch the G & S flavor. Adele Hugo's choreography and the direction of John Benedict keeps this cast moving through well-timed routines. In the past, disappointing performances have made the Winthrop opera a risky luxury for Gilbert and Sullivan fans. This year, Patience is a necessity...