Word: matisoff
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Also Kenneth McIntosh of Kirkland House and New York City; James A. Matisoff of Eliot House and Malden, Massachusetts; Calvin C. Moore of Kirkland House and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Michael P. Rogin of Leverett House and Flushing, New York; Richard L. Roth of Eliot House and Tucson, Arizona; David Savitz of Adams House and New York City, and Lynn J. Taylor of Dunster House and Cuyuhaga Falls, Ohio...
...performance of the evening was turned in by James Matisoff as Sir Epicure Mammon; he creeps about the stage, delivering his passionate outbursts, alternately joyful and despondent, and always excellent. He was ably supported by Nathan Douthit--with amazing grimaces and thunderous orations, and Carl Morgan--the stomach-stroking pastor with a thirst for gold...
...second monument in the Advocate is a translation of the third act of Moliere's The School for Wives, by James A. Matisoff. The translation seems good enough, but why the Advocate should feel it is making a contribution to Harvard literary creativity by filling nine complete pages with a Moliere play or why anyone should be interested in reading it is difficult to understand...
...Sullivan plays the vile Moor, Aaron, with stunning force. Pride and pure villainy radiate from his posture and face, and his voice grasps Shakesperean lines with brilliant skill. James Matisoff, playing the Emperor is impressively curt, hoarse, and pouting. Michael Sugarman makes a most fitting brother to the emperor, but Abigail Sugarman is not always at ease in the crucial role of the emperor's vengeful wife. Her face and voice do outstanding work for her difficult part, but her gestures and postures float detachedly or rigidly. As Lavinia, daughter to Titus, Susan Howe is intense and haunting. After...
...Critic is a somewhat shapeless play, made up of two parts. The first, little more than a series of character sketches, is laid in the home of one Dangle, portrayed ably but with a faintly incongruous accent by James Matisoff. Here, in addition to Puff, another aspiring author named Fret, played by Marc Brugnoni, and a gentleman-about-town called Sneer, portrayed by Robert Jordan, needle each other with polished skill. But Thomas Teal, as a horse-faced and impassive servant, all but steals the scene as the helps his master ceremoniously slip on a corset...