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Robert H. Secrist, as the boy, apparently understands his role quite well. At times, he manages to project pained convulsions of a character who is really mute despite a surface glibness. But at other times, Secrist seems only affected, and the kid becomes too cute for words. Elaine Gordon, on the other hand, gives a performance as the elderly woman that is too restrained. Both the actors and Earle Edgerton, who directed the first play, tired hard, but they just did not have the material with which to work...
...majority that he needs to expunge from the constitution the hateful clause that for 45 years has guaranteed voting rights to 50,000 mixed-blood citizens. In Pretoria a handful of black-sashed members of the Women's Defense of the Constitution League took up their stations of mute protest outside the old brownstone Raad-saal where Premier Strydom staged his show. Inside, opposition United Party Leader J.G.N. Strauss denounced the proceedings as "immoral and unconstitutional," then walked out with all his followers. Thereupon the Nationalists, inflated their countrywide majority to 77 of the Senate's 89 members...
...What are the younger faculty members doing? Do we pick the best men? Are there mute and glorious scholars who should be at Harvard?" Brinton said his committee will probably try to answer these questions...
...opened last week in Manhattan (off Broadway) for a two-week run. When the curtain rose on a bare stage and a black backdrop, it looked as if Mime Marceau, gesticulating but wordless, had about as much chance of success in hard-to-please New York as a mute at a hog-calling contest. But next morning the critics called him "superb," his work a "masterpiece...
...dignity, unlike their children. Author White is overfond of the eye-stopping metaphor ("She was brushed in sad gusts by the branches of the music"), but at his best, he makes long-suffering Stan at least as poignant as Markham's Man with the Hoe. Stan's mute wisdom is in knowing that endurance is all. Author White's literary unwisdom is in worrying this theme for so long that his novel itself becomes a kind of endurance test...