Word: lunt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...concern was a feeling of being abandoned by the press. "Let them move on to their next thing," said Jill Ruckleshaus, former head of the U.S. International Women's Year Commission. "They've done us no good." Boston University Professor Sally Lunt dramatically accused the press of "gearing up for a women-against-women bloodbath" at this fall's National Women's Conference in Houston...
DIED. Alfred Lunt, 84, celebrated actor and director who with his wife Lynn Fontanne reigned over Broadway for nearly four decades; of cancer; in Chicago. The Lunts, who began acting together on Broadway soon after they were married in 1922, co-starred in more than two dozen plays (The Guardsman, Reunion in Vienna, There Shall Be No Night, The Visit), some of which Lunt also directed. Creating a chemistry of opposites, he tall and temperamental, she lithe and blithe, theater's royal couple delighted playgoers with their consummate craftsmanship and their sophisticated badinage both onstage and off. Though...
Still it was not a perfect Traviata. Created nine years ago by Director Alfred Lunt and Designer Cecil Beaton, this production has Violetta's bedroom looking like a barn in winter-something Walt Disney might have conceived in homage to Charles Addams. Because the windows are so high and remote, the poor girl cannot even get to the win dow to watch the revelers in the last act. The current stage director, Fabrizio Melano, has not really resolved all the old problems: the Baron's challenge to Alfredo in Act III, for example, comes off much too tame...
...first revival of Booth Tarkington's Clarence since it opened with Alfred Lunt in the title role in 1919 is a class-conscious comedy and a delight to behold. The hero, Clarence )Stephen Keep), is a mysterious World War I veteran who applies to the Wheeler family for a job. The Wheelers-stuffy father, silly mother, bratty daughter, son thrown out of Princeton-take him on and find him a paragon of piano tuning, plumbing and wistfully disarming charm. Keep is a perfect stand-in for a young Jimmy Stewart. As Clarence, he woos and wins the governess (Marian...
...counting, no one seems to have noticed the stubborn absence of humor or the manic mugging by the star, Louis de Funès, whose exertions make Jerry Lewis look, by comparison, like Alfred Lunt. De Funès likes to pop his eyes out, fast and wide, like two billiard balls bouncing off the side cushion. He is ever choleric, his veins on the point of rupture, like a man who has been mud-splattered by the bus he just missed...