Word: mouthes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cranston Jones, who inherited White's 9 o'clock tutoring appointment in Rio, had been in Brazil only two weeks when he had to go to Belém, near the mouth of the Amazon, to cover a plane-crash story. Late one evening, he found himself lost in the town, and worse, he could not remember the name of his hotel. The people on the sidewalk spoke no French or English; he had not yet learned Portuguese. "Finally," says Jones, "a padre shouldered his way through the crowd and asked me if I spoke Latin. I went...
...supposed to expedite and clarify; sometimes he seems to drop back into the criminal lawyer's bent for diverting and throwing dust. His flowing language is sometimes confusing and his booming courtroom voice hit the microphones so hard that electricians installed a special guard to keep his mouth at least two inches away. At first, while points of order mounted to disorder, he seemed to be waiting for the judge to stop the nonsense, not realizing that he could prompt Chairman Mundt to bang the gavel...
...sixth New Theatre Workship production, In the Lion's Mouth by Erik Amfitheatrof, is full of sound and fury, signifying little that has not already been well explored. But it is, for all its excess philosophy, an exciting play. In fact, its main fault lies in the effort Mr. Amfitheatrof has made to achieve excitement. His characters indulge in a good deal too much swearing and beating upon one another--both gems of stock dramaturgy that are below the author's general high plane of plot construction...
...generally indifferent acting also hurt In the Lion's Mouth. None of the actors gave their characters warmth or feeling. Both Arnold Aaron as the policeman and Andre Gregory as the sometime communist were too intellectual in their approaches, cutting off the audience's sympathy. And in fairness to the author, lines suggesting the human quality of the characters were quite evident. Messers. Aaron and Gregory, nevertheless, were quite consistent in their portrayals, and my quarrel is rather with their conception of the characters than with their skill...
Even with its shortcomings of cast and script, In the Lion's Mouth, I should repeat, was exciting and generally enjoyable. The very fact of an all-student production on a regular New Theatre Workshop schedule is a very pleasant sign for Harvard drama. Bringing this season of locally written plays to an end, the HDC production of Mr. Amfitheatrof's work promises much for next year...