Word: limelights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...British Actor Cyril Ritchard (Love for Love, Make Way for Lucia) blends a born sense of comedy with a brilliant sense of style. His Foppington is no mere lace-handkerchief dangler, but the eager performer of an idiotic role, with a need and a genius for catching the limelight. Ritchard understands that the key to Foppington and his kind is not an ambiguity of sex but an absorption with self...
...Assimilated by the middleaged, he had no spell for the young in politics and as an artist he influenced no one. There remained only his reclame, perhaps his most remarkable achievement-his unique stage personality remained sharp, sagacious and dazzling; the delightful vanity of his genius kept the limelight till the last...
...failure to earn more than ?6 by novels and casual writing before he was 40. To the hostile, Shaw's trotting to Moscow and his defense of tyrants seemed a mixture of cynicism, contemptible prudence, and an old mountebank's determination to keep in the limelight; a degeneration from the noble pages of The Intelligent Woman's Guide...
...Friday night at Princeton, music will take the limelight. The annual Harvard-Princeton Glee Club Concert will be held in Alexander Hall, and the Operotta Guild will perform Victor Herbert's "Sweethearts" in McCarter Theatre, just off University Place. A lecture on jazz by Barry Ulanov, editor of Metronome, will take place in Clio Hall. The talk will be supplemented by readings...
...Henry Wallace regained the political limelight briefly in August when...