Word: old
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...resolves it are the best parts of the evening; once Jim Tyrone begins to open his heart, A Moon for the Misbegotten becomes and stays interesting. But somehow it never becomes as powerful or haunting as might be expected from the combination of this author and these themes. The old O'Neill faults, on the other hand, are much in evidence: the play is rambling, uneven, unfocussed, and couched largely in outdated slang...
...comic scenes center around Josie-the-slattern's rascally old Irish father, who is played by Arthur Malet with a nicely integrated and polished collection of mannerisms indicating rascality and eld. It would be a brilliant performance, except that it is a bit too carefully styled and a bit too lovable to be thoroughly at home in O'Neill's harshly realistic play. Moreover--unaccountably, in view of his obvious skills--Mr. Malet is not very funny...
Director Helmut Kautner's point is that loneliness and pride make communication well-nigh impossible between people. The seventeen-year-old girl feels she must invent rich relatives, fiancees, pipe dreams, in order to be loved, and these lies set up a terrible barrier between herself and the boy who would love her. He feels too proud to marry a rich girl when he is too poor to support even himself and a duck. Similarly, the married woman thinks she has to go on sleeping with her husband and her other lover so Jacques--soft, revolting Jacques--won't lose...
...masked Cambridge firemen hauled away an old refrigerator which routed students from C-entry of Dunster House early this morning. Escaping sulfur dioxide, from a broken tube in the relic, spread from the fourth floor to the basement, creating a mild panic among the Dunster ranks...
They're sending up a rocket to photograph the other side of the United States Government. Here to fore un photographed, this side, always dark and turned away from us, has long been a subject of great scientific curiosity and intense speculation. The old rivalry over which branch of the Armed Services would take responsibility for the rocket is over now, and, following a joint declaration by the White House staff, and several misfires, the huge thing has finally gone up. It will be directed through a previously planted tracking station somewhere between the Crater of Security Clearance...