Word: lightheartedness
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This performance becomes more and more gratifying, after a comparatively slow opening scene. The final scene is first-class farce, skillfully handled on the small platform stage by director Wheeling. Ellen Bower's music and Paul Etter's costumes both add greatly to the lighthearted mood of the play.
By U.S. standards, Café was well above average, a briskly paced, lighthearted series of variety acts with a minimum of Berlesque mugging. The Continental flavor was supplied by Swiss yodeling, Gypsy music and French acrobatics. But top honors went to shapely Singer Isabel Bigley, a New Yorker who went...
French Communists felt the dialectical sap rising in their veins. They rioted. A try at wrecking the conservative newspaper Le Figaro brought out their old opponents, the cops. One camera caught cop and Commie in a balletlike tableau (see cut) which suggested a title-The Afternoon of a Gendarme. French...
But at the urging of a nurse who is determined that the Scot shall die among friends, they manage to thaw him out into the friendliest man in the place. When Todd learns that he has been befriended out of pity for his imminent death, he lapses into his old...
In desperation, Frankie fastens on her brother and his fiancee, feels that they can share their love with her and take her along on their honeymoon. Foiled, she runs away for a night-a night of melodrama when Berenice's foster brother is fleeing from a mob and little...