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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...life and sterility which is carried on at two levels. On one level the struggle is between the 70-year-old Mrs. St. Maugham and the woman she hires as a companion for her sixteen-year-old granddaughter, Laurel. On the other level, the struggle is between the companion, Miss Madrigal, and Mrs. St. Maugham's old, and now infirmed, butler, Mr. Pinkbell, who never appears on stage. Since the companion is at the focus of both of these quarrels, it is on the strength of the performance of Miss Madrigal that "Chalk Garden" stands or falls, and at Tufts...
...statewide beauty contest, which entitled her to compete for the Miss Universe title this week at the international beauty contest in Long Beach, Calif., and her archbishop had said that if she did, he would deny the sacraments of Communion and confession to both her and her mother (her father is not Catholic) for "an indefinite period of time." Philadelphia-born Archbishop Edwin Vincent Byrne, 67, like many another prelate, feels that females should be well covered in public. At his insistence, the beauty contest won by Sue Ingersoll held its bathing-suit judging in private, with only members...
What of the individual performances? It will come as no surprise that Siobhan McKenna's Viola is a gem. Someone once wrote that Violas are born, not made; and Miss McKenna is clearly a born Viola. She is a great enough actress not to have to worry that, at her first entrance, she not only doesn't move under her own power but is completely unconscious...
...normal person in the play. Yet for most of the time she must go about abnormally disguised as a young boy, who looks like her twin brother Sebastian. The problem was quite different in Elizabethan times, since actresses were interdicted and both roles were taken by young boys. Miss McKenna is able to convey a zestful boyishness without ever losing her innate womanliness. And more than any one else in the cast, she pays attention to the poetic qualities of the text (though on opening night she sometimes lowered her voice to the brink of inaudibility...
...perfect. She makes it clear that Maria's wits are as sharp as her nose and her chin; she is quite bright enough to have thought up one of the profoundest statements in the play: "Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." Miss Grimes skedaddles and flits about with a lively infectiousness that is devastating...