Word: mutes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...work, Actress Bancroft was beginning to understand that last dimension of the role for which she was preparing. Already a part of her was onstage, creating with incredible vitality a superior human being: half-blind Anne Sullivan, whose stubborn skill lit up life itself for a deaf, blind and mute child named Helen Keller. Already, Anne Bancroft was The Miracle Worker of Playwright William Gibson's impressive new play (TIME...
...Miracle Worker. Remarkably acted by Anne Bancroft and Patty Duke, William Gibson's fairly makeshift story of Teacher Annie Sullivan's turbulent grappling with the deaf, blind, mute child, Helen Keller, most of the time emerges an unsentimental human document and memorable theater...
Wayne, as usual, magnificent. As Brother Juniper, he is gay and wistful, pleading and commanding, mute and eloquent. He has the gift of changing the audience's mood from mirth to melancholy by altering the tone of his voice. And his stage presence is remarkable; his one or two fluffs sounded almost like part of the script, and he steadied a wavering child actor without missing a line...
Margaretha Walk yesterday displayed an attractive and well-trained voice in the title role, and W. Clarke Hudson brought more than enough skill to the part of her would-be-detective spouse. Peter Brown was amusing in the mute role of the butler...
...wife, Marigold cries "Oh woman, woman, you'll never catch my little Sophy by her hair again, for she has flown away from you!" A paragraph later, Mrs. Marigold commits suicide (the river route). Handkerchiefs must be kept at the ready, for Marigold adopts a deaf-mute girl who is being cuffed and starved by a bestial circus master...