Word: masons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Feel Good." The new Lions International president elected this week: Dry Goods Retailer Dudley L. Simms, 49, of Charleston, W. Va., who is also an active Mason, Shriner and Elk. West Virginia's Governor Cecil H. Underwood came up to watch the inauguration. Simms now starts twelve months of world travel, much of it north and south of the borders. For the first time ever, West European Lions were thick enough to get a man on the vice-presidency ladder: Per Stahl, 42. knifemaker from Eskilstuna, Sweden, who will, in the normal order of Lion growth, become president...
Well, I never thought I'd ever see James Mason singing, soft-shoeing, and straw-hatting his way through old vaudeville routines. But this is precisely what he is doing this week in his Boston stage debut. He evidently had the same yen that Sir Laurence Olivier recently satisfied in John Osborne's The Entertainer; and what's more, both Mason's material and performance are superior to Olivier...
...Mason's vehicle on this occasion is Mid-summer, a sentimental comedy that had a short Broadway run in 1953, written by Vina Delmar (chiefly known for her serialized novels in women's magazines). The play is not very substantial; but it is at least competently written and, in this production, always engaging. The beginning, however, is unfocussed; and there are numerous evidences of obvious padding, where, for instance, characters quote poetry, the Declaration of Independence, the agnostic writing of Robert Ingersoll, and the roster of U.S. presidents, or occupy themselves in a spelling bee and an arithmetic problem...
...action, laid in a cheap lower Manhattan hotel room in 1907, centers about a down-and-out teacher (played by Mason) with a craving for the adventure and glamour of show biz; his wife (portrayed by Mason's wife Pamela), who wants him to settle down in "the little white house" and security of a teaching position on Staten Island; and their shockingly precocious nine-year-old daughter (winningly played by the Masons' own daughter Portland...
...Mason's performance, over and above his adept vaudeville bits, is faultless--a suave and perfectly controlled one, such as we often get from the best British actors and have usually got from Mason himself in his many movies from Seventh Veil through Julius Caesar to Cry Terror. He doesn't falter vocally for a moment, even when at the same time he has to give himself a complete shave with a straight razor or don a shirt with separate collar and French cuffs...