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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Miss Yanguas came to the United States nine years ago. Since then she has always wanted to open a European Coffee House. The basement of Father Feeney's old stamping ground proved to be just the right place for what she had in mind...
Born in Pamplona, Miss Yanguas missed the coffee houses of her native city. She felt that Cambridge lacked a place where people could meet and talk in a quiet, pleasant atmosphere. So when she opened the Cafe Pamplona last May, she tried to keep it in this European tradition. As a result, the Cafe Pamplona is unique among the Cambridge Coffee Houses...
Mary Grayon is almost ideally cast as the nervously talkative mother, whose busy lack of understanding makes home unbearable for the children she loves. Miss Graydon's slim figure is adroitly made pathetic by the dresses Angela Brown has hung on her; and the break in her voice keeps always alive a sense that this woman lies on the edge of desperation. Moreover (much moreover), she is equal as an actress to the demands of the part--which is vastly more than can be said for anyone else I can think of in Cambridge. Her fluttery hand-gestures, her nods...
...About Miss Humphrey's Laura, with her amazing vocal resemblance to her mother and her triumphant avoidance of the nullity towards which the part so dangerously tends, I had better not say any more. Her brother Tom is played by Joel Crothers, who lapses at moments into the mere personableness of a movie juvenile lead; for the most part, however, he takes after the rest of his stage family and is admirable...
...British book or movie or play, it is largely because Mr. Williams has written him that way, and because Mr. Hancock has made him sprawl and slouch and lean. When Mr. Gesell is allowed to be nice and ordinary, as in most of his achingly poignant scene with Miss Humphreys, he too does fine work. If I have used word like "poignant" and "pathetic" with depressing frequency in this review, I should like to have used them a great deal oftener; for poignancy and pathos are nearly all The Glass Menagerie has to offer, and the only measure...