Word: likeness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...like either Katherine Hepburn or Shakespeare, don't miss "As You Like It." If you've never tested them before, try them in this show and you'll come away convinced...
Clearly, any edvances in the field of radio education must start in a spirit of experiment and must be backed by peculiarly idealistic sponsors with at least a little imagination. It is conceivable that someday you could flick the dial on your radio and hear something like this "...so just send in two box tops and 10 cents, ladies, and you will receive a neatly packaged, simplified version of Professor Kluckhohn's stimulating new text, "The Curious Habits of Navaho Married Couples.'" But it is also conceivable that radio could be a very strong educational force--especially for adults...
...ever Katherine Hepburn had the perfect medium for her ability, she had it Monday night in Shakespeare's "As You Like It." The play is full of witty yet wise side remarks that need her kittenish sophistication; she, in turn, is at her best in the vaporous atmosphere, the half-fantasy world of Arden Forest. The combination--Shakespeare and Hepburn--is nearly unbeatable for producing an evening's enjoyment...
...everything except Olivier's Orlando, the movie suffers in comparison to this performance. The songs, the incidental music, the short by-plots--like Touchstone's love-making--all add the necessary rustic flavor that make the play so English. The two shepherd boys who are so deeply in love are really giddy, and thereby funny in the play; in the movie, they merely filled in the loose strings at the end of the main plots. The movie missed, too, on the character of Jaques. The uncommon melancholy which Thesiger puts into his part set up perfectly the profound lines that...
...most people, breakfast is at best a marginal meal. Sometimes they get up in time for breakfast, rush to the dining hall and find them serving French toast. Strange as it seems, some folks don't like French toast...