Word: michaels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Michael Cahaly, a white mustached Syrian, has banked his fortunes on undergraduate caprice for the past twenty-five years. Together with Raphael, his younger brother, he keeps Cahaly's grocery store open every day and far into the night to cater to the owlish tastes of students for late snacks, Pogo, and Mickey Spillane...
Cahaly's seven-day week has seemed to some other merchants almost a servitude of a life. "It's a lousy way of making a living," said one, "there's no drama in it." This is true and not true. The drama in Michael Cahaly's life centers around the remote past of Syria. When he talks of its history his voice loses its matter-of-fact quality and he waves his ever present cigar in wide, animated circles. "Once, Syria," he said, "was the old Syria that went from the Torus Mountains to the Sinai Desert. . . . Damascus was once...
...director of the film, Richardson does even better work. From Michael Shepley, cast as one of Richardson's friendly neighbors, he has drawn an expert impression of manic, empty geniality. And he wins from Margaret Leighton, as Richardson's wife, a heart-shaking portrayal of what it means to face the curded eye of madness with nothing more than a nice disposition...
...Michael Laurence dominates the stage in the role of a Council member who goads the crowd against the blind man and the girl. In the play's climax, Helen, played by Connaught O'Connel, stands at the edge of the stage speaking to the horse and its Greek occupants. In a voice that barely rises above a whisper, Miss O'Connel gives tremendous power to MacLeish's lyric lines...
...play's final scene, when Miss Steele and Michael Laurence find a moment of self-understanding under the spell of the island moon and their own love, is well done. Their conversation outside while a drunken party rages in the house is particularly effective, and the scene is marred only by a curtain that falls too long after they find themselves stymied in their attempt to escape, and are forced to return to their former lives...