Word: macmahon
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...here and there on the stage the story loses a certain inward glow, it gains in outward color from snatches of song or the interplay of street voices. With the performers-particularly George Brenlin as Sean and Aline MacMahon as the mother-providing a resonant voice box, I Knock at the Door wisely puts adroit storytelling ahead of theatrical effect. If four walls and a passion can make a good play, almost as much can be had from six chairs and a prose style; and an ounce of Cavendish cut-plug can be worth a pound of routine theatrics...
Mark Earle, bow; Bill Leatherby, two; John Noble, three; Hugh MacMahon, four; David Davidson, five; Lloyd McKeeman, six; John Wunderlich, seven; Mike Adair, stroke; Vic March...
...accurate, dependable, invulnerable, long-range missiles that had been so freely predicted did not appear. The late Senator Brien MacMahon, then chairman of the Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy, summed up the situation in his famous remark about pushbutton warfare. "All we have now," said the Senator, "are the pushbuttons...
...also been defeated by a constitutional majority, and the constitution provides that the Assembly can be dissolved if two successive governments are so overthrown within 18 months. But no Premier under the Fourth Republic ever has invoked this right, nor any chief executive under the Third Republic since Marshal MacMahon did it in 1877. MacMahon succeeded only in discrediting himself as an "anti-parliamentary traitor," and the device with him. Under the Fourth Republic, Deputies have always taken the precaution of "dosing" the vote so that Premiers were brought down judiciously short of constitutional majorities. But last week overconfidence made...
...characters are so many musical instruments for a rather sophisticated but monotonously scored tone poem. There is a mother (Aline MacMahon) who is pleasantly, parochially country-housish; her once-vigorous brother-in-law who is now just terribly old; her overserious, not very human son (Hume Cronyn), a civil servant who has lost out on the girl who loved him and is losing out on a career. There is the girl herself (Jessica Tandy), now a middle-aging widow who loves him no longer. Devoid of pasts or futures or both, the characters are drowning with the utmost politeness...