Word: newland
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Because of her relations with a sinuous foreigner. Julius Beaufort, she is the center of gossip. Love again comes into her life in the person of Newland Archer, rising young politician, who is already married to her cousin. However, she scarifies herself for the sake of her lover's career and the scenes leading up to the renunciation have dramatic power that Miss Cornell utilizes to the full...
...place in the 70's and there is opportunity for occasional satirical sallies against the Victorian morals of the day. Much of the humor is supplied by the skillful way in which Susan Blake handles the role of May van der Luyden. Among the male parts, John Marston as Newland Archer and Arnold Korff as Julius Beaufort perform creditably...
...Alice Fordyce Alixe Walker Tom Hamilton James Vincent Lucy Duane Frances Allen Sillerton Jackson Ian Wolfe Jessie Lefferts Brenda Dahlen Mrs. Henry Van Der Luyden Isabel Irving Mrs. Manson Mingott Katherine Stewart Mr. Henry Van Den Luyden Frank Andrews Julius Beaufort Arnold Korff May Van Den Luyden Susan Blake Newland Archer John Marston Countess Olenska Katharine Cornell The Duke of St. Austrey Robert Hobbs Anastasia Giannina Gatti Stephen Letterblair Albert Tavernier Carlos Saramonte Edouard La Roche Jean Pierre Villon Newland Archer, Jr. Henry Richards...
...Innocence. Here is Edith Wharton's story of the Countess Olenska, eloquently transferred to the stage by Margaret Ayer Barnes. The Countess Olenska returned to Manhattan, leaving her horrible Count in Europe. In Manhattan she met Newland Archer; they fell in love, but Newland married a girl to whom he was engaged. Newland Archer and the Countess nearly ran away together when the horrible Count crossed the ocean to retrieve her; but Newland's wife was too feeble for the Countess, who was sick of cruelties, to injure; so Countess Olenska returned to her Count and Newland Archer...
Audiences have now become accustomed to copulation in the theatre and they may wonder how it is that a brief kiss almost causes Newland Archer to leave Mrs. Newland Archer for the Countess Olenska. Today, a playwright would not have used the kiss; but by substituting more ardent gestures he would not have made the situation more compelling. The time of the piece is "the seventies." The troubles of the characters in it are not rendered artificial by the artificialities of its expression, and the graces of a graceful era are retained. Watching the passion and despair of these costumed...