Word: leightons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tedious. (The attractive landlady is in both plays an almost incredible emblem of self-sufficiency.) But since the two central figures of each play differ so in personality, both expositions of the problem are interesting and seem to have a wide and general significance. In the first play, Margaret Leighton plays a sexually-repressed model, statuesque and "cut out of ice"; in the other she is again sexually repressed, but this time as the whimpering invalid daughter of a domineering mother. Eric Portman is in both cases sexually frustrated, but his first example is that of a hard-drinking, warmly...
Considering the shift from strong people in the first play to weak ones in the second, a great variety of acting skills are required of Mr. Portman and Miss Leighton. Although Miss Leighton's invalid daughter is a bit too invalid, in general they both prove themselves more than adequate to the task. Mr. Portman especially exudes a warmth and stage personality which is fascinating to behold. If their parts were less exciting, May Hallett and Phyllis Neilson-Terry, two boarders, were certainly competent...
...only really irritating acting performance is that of Ann Hillary, who persists to shout wordlessly in a rasping voice throughout both plays. If Miss Hillary proves distracting, nothing else detracts from the general success of the play. The sets, while not exciting, are satisfactory. The costumes, especially on Miss Leighton, are more than adequate. But the most striking contributions are those of Eric Portman and Terence Rattigan...
...British Foreign Office official, Stevenson came out of the war a lieutenant commander and took his first newspaper job pedaling a bicycle on rural news beats for England's weekly Leighton Buzzard Beds and Bucks Observer. He had worked his way up to Fleet Street by 1948, when he moved to Canada. The Toronto Globe & Mail fired him after three weeks as a deskman. Then he joined the Star. In 1949 his first self-invented foreign assignment took him to Yugoslavia to check up on 3,000 Yugoslav immigrants who had left Canada for Tito's Marxist paradise...
Adams was introduced by Dean Delmar Leighton. The Invocation and Benediction were given by Commander Robert F. McComas, Navy chaplain. Captain John F. Gallagher, U.S.N., professor of Naval Science, administered the Oath of Office to the graduates...