Word: orsino
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...countenance wavers between a grin and a pout, but it never really communicates honest feeling. She seems, however, warm-hearted and lithe, and is quite consistent. Feste, the Jester, played by Eugene Gervasi, moves and gesticulates very well, though his throaty, stilted speech is perhaps affected. Marcellus Winston, as Orsino, the Duke of Illyria, mouths his lines in a monotone and seems insensible of what he is saying...
...Guild's leading players are perfectly at home in the blandishing groove. Helen Hayes makes her Broadway Shakespearean debut (two years ago she played Portia in Chicago) in the role of Viola, who, in boy's clothes, pleads the amorous cause of the Duke of Illyria, Orsino, whom she loves herself. There is little in the part to show Miss Hayes's powers as an upper-case Shakespearean Actress. She scores merely by being Helen Hayes, very feminine despite her striped pantaloons, giving a clear, pliant reading of the part...
...Evans' more oratorical hours may consider beneath him. But "Twelfth Night" has a breadth not often demonstrated in such a clear light. Into each circle of society-from the clowning Maria and Toby Belch; to the peacock Malvolio, as much a clown on a higher plane; to Orsino, Viola and Olivia, made fools of by love in their own right-Shakespeare has pried good humoredly. But when the smoke of his amazingly complicated plot has cleared, it is nothing but "a whirligig of time." You are left singing "hey, nonny, nonny...
Outside and Inside were two sides of that startling event?the collapse of Miss Aida Jenkinson, actress, on the night on which she was to have realized her life's ambition by appearing as Viola in Twelfth Night. Instead of being page to Duke Orsino, she put on an air signifying that Duke Orsino was page to her; she cut all other parts with mighty shears; she threw out her lines like strings of sausage out of a sausage machine. But on the great night itself, after splitting her green jacket up the back, Actress Jenkinson collapsed in a heap...
...Orsino, Duke of Illyria,Frederic Eric Sebastian, brother to Viola, William Lewers Antonio, a sea captain, friend to Sebastian, Frank Burbeck A sea captain, friend to Olivia, W. H. Gilmore Valentine, gentleman attending on Duke, T. L. Coleman Curio, gentleman attending on Duke, W. H. Claire Sir Toby Belch, uncle to Olivia, Fred Tyler Sir Andrew Aguecheek, R. P. Carter Malvolio, steward to Olivia, Ernest Lawford Fabian, servant to Olivia, E. W. Morrison Feste, a clown, servant to Olivia, G. H. Trader Olivia, Josephine Victor Viola, Maude Adams Maria, Lizzio Collier