Word: malvolio
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...huge book of Shakespeare which is unfolded to make various scenes. Her performance as Viola is lively, her grace and beauty are used to good effect. But Leon Quartermain gives the most worthy interpretation, bringing rich and affecting pathos and frustration to the difficult role of pompous Major Domo Malvolio...
...with the slightly distorted comedy as it is presented on the American stage. The situation is not humorous nor does the conclusion leave one with a glow of satisfaction because the heroine finally got the heir. This is rather the sort of comedy that is associated with the unfortunate Malvolio, a play of incongruities. Practically every character is caught in a problem that is impossible for him to solve, and it is in the living creation of these distinct and different beings that the present cast carries out so effectively and exquisitely...
...latest offering at the Willbur presents itself as one of the best theatrical offerings now playing in Boston. Miss Cowl enters into the spirit of this charmingly vivacious comedy with a whole heart and she is well supported by an adequate east; especially Loon Quartermaine in the part of Malvolio. Added to this, the settings by Raymond Sovey are unusually clever and beautiful. The text is practically complete and the musical arrangement by Macklyn Marrow completes a good production...
...presents Shakespeare that lacks glamour but makes sense. His Hamlet and Shylock are thoroughly understandable men beset by "equally perceivable woes. His Petruchio is an excruciating shrew-tamer. During his first Manhattan week he also played Macbeth, Malvolio (Twelfth Night), Richard...
...there is some merit in the idea. Surely Falstaff or Malvolio should be able to wipe away the cares of business and give rest to the harried faces on Wall Street. Strangely enough, however, the Honorable Ex-Senator who made the suggestion looks on his discovery as something new and unusual. Perhaps it is to him; perhaps the students of Richmond College did not doze over their Shakspere in his days. And even now the throught of Brutus on Broadway is somewhat startling. Yet Cassius in Cambridge is already well known--and the somnolent influence of Polonius on a warm...