Word: limelighted
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...tragic last act of Juno and the Paycock is spoiled by wanton melodrama. Too late, too violently, O'Casey pushes the son and daughter into the limelight. Their fate-not having the full force of the play behind it -seems manipulated, its effect on Juno mawkish. But it is proof of O'Casey's real power that his Paycock should remain comic from start to finish. The Paycock is a callous wastrel for whom O'Casey has only bitter scorn; but he is a born "character," and O'Casey lets him cut his capers without...
...Tristan and Isolde, are a team whose memory will still be green when the present generation of operagoers is old and grey. Tristan and Isolde are opera's greatest lovers, and to thousands of U. S. listeners Melchior and Flagstad are their incarnation. Though that incarnation is only limelight-deep (in private life Melchior and Flagstad are never more than polite, between eruptions of professional jealousy), operagoers are treasuring it while it lasts. For last month Diva Flagstad announced that she would retire at the end of this season. Soon this mortal pair of immortals will be offstage forever...
Larry Butt, John Irving, and Jock Elliott took the limelight for the Dormitories, while the Leverett cause was boosted on against superior ability and experience by Malcolm Marshall, Jess Willard, and Jim Monkman...
Thanatopsis. When Kaufman & Connelly hit the limelight with Dulcy in 1921, it was as more than rising young playwrights. They were part of a group which, by virtue of talent, wit and hobnobbing together, was coming to dominate the sophisticated Manhattan scene. Their lunch club, the Algonquin Hotel, had waked up one morning to find itself famous, and celebrity-chasers flocked there, as to a play, to observe Kaufman. Connelly, Broun, Woollcott, Benchley, Dorothy Parker, F.P.A. & Co. at lunch, and to hear their laughter, though not what gave rise to it. The male members enhanced their glamor by forming...
...long ago when Hank Drinker, erstwhile cub stroke, came through in the heavy sculling singles to win an all college event. Drinker's sculling experience was limited but natural ability seemed to carry him through. However, Drinker is not the only hopeful that remains out of the limelight at Nassau...