Word: mr
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most unseemly and undignified for the Vice President of the U.S. to engage in a public brawl with that expert in that field, Mr. Khrushchev, and worse still that he came off second best. After all, he should have remembered the technique of the late Joe McCarthy...
...Reprinted form the summer issue of the AAUP Bulletin. Mr. McArthur is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Vermont...
...Mr. White, in all fairness, was nearly beside himself with misery resulting from poor health and financial difficulties. Only towards the end of the performance and during an instrumental blues interlude with bassist Al Lucas, whose busy, well articulated work here was a high spot of the night, was he in good form...
...this role is so meaty and the character is reminiscent of Malvolio in Twelfth Night. (The scene on the Pirate Ship, where Hook is duped by Peter and the orphan children is particularly reminiscent of the Garden Scene where Malvolio is duped by Sir Toby and his cohorts.) Mr. Portman, nevertheless, brings his own special qualities to the role...
...entirely different mood, neither nymph-like nor villainous, Ellis Rabb is absolutely superb. It is no news that Mr. Rabb is a fine classic actor (having appeared as Hamlet and Lear to great critical acclaim); but as Smee, Captain Hook's sentimental side-kick, he is just plain riotous. He has but to walk across the stage to get a laugh. The characterization is similar to one he used as Starveling in A Midsummer Night's Dream at Stratford last summer; but since he has considerably more to say as Smee, the concept is considerably enlarged. The shaky voice...