Word: monologuist
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...England Mind. Melville was a born monologuist, which helps Aranson mightily. The novel is replete with presentiments of drama, explicitly written-in stage directions that invaluably guide a fine actor. Thus Ahab's first appearance is heralded by the words: "He stood before us with a crucifixion in his face." Aranson turns that cue into a reality...
Though satire is still around, it is not in very robust condition. Mort Sahl, once a master of the form, is as hard fo find as an old Will Rogers routine; his last television show lasted two weeks. Monologuist Bob Newhart, one of a line of snipers who picked off American postures and pretensions, is rarely seen on TV nowadays, and Sid Caesar has not been seen regularly since 1964. Mike Nichols and Elaine May, who took the Ins and made them Out to be a group of phonies, seldom appear together any more...
...Ruth Draper (Spoken Arts; five records, $29.75) is the understatement of several years. The late monologuist was one of the most formidable artists in the history of the U.S. theater. Her monologues were not stunts but acute siftings of men and women as social beings. Her Doctors and Diet is worth 100 Helen Hokinson cartoons, her Three Generations in a Court of Domestic Relations pours oceans of immigrant experience into a mother's tears. The Italian Lesson, beginning with Dante's "Midway upon the journey of our life I found myself in a dark wood, where the right...
Seven years ago, John Henry Faulk was making $36,000 a year as a radio and television monologuist and comic chatterer. Suddenly, his radio-TV income dropped to zero. He had been blacklisted as a Communist sympathizer in a pamphlet published by AWARE, Inc., a private group of lawyers, professors, businessmen and actors whose declared objective was "to combat the Communist conspiracy in entertainment communications...
...this year, it is bringing such cultural attractions as the Indianapolis Symphony and sharing them with hundreds of public school children. Culver has the oldest credit course in dramatics of any U.S. secondary school, has sent to Broadway such bright lights as Playwright William Inge, Director Joshua Logan and Monologuist Hal Holbrook...