Word: passion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...into alcoholism (Sept. 26). Conrad was once literary secretary to Sinclair Lewis. Edward Albee has adapted The Ballad of the Sad Café, Carson McCullers' dark-visionary study of human grotesques (Oct. 30). Paddy Chayefsky, shrewdly going for new ground every time out, has written The Passion of Josef D., a view of Joseph Stalin from 1917 to 1924, from the Revolution to the death of Lenin...
Rice's first play was On Trial, produced in 1914. His iconoclastic Street Scene came along in 1929, followed by Dream Girl in 1946; his latest (and 27th) was Cue for Passion, which had a five-week run in 1959. Almost 50 years of writing, directing, traveling and -according to his boast-lovemaking, should have supplied material for still another play-or even a good book.But Rice has always given the best lines to somebody else...
Sister Virginia fought the Devil. She locked herself in her cell, flogged her naked back until the blood came, sent precious gifts to Our Lady of Loreto, prayed endlessly that "the Lord would free me from that passion." But several nuns who were Sister Virginia's close friends acted as if they were on Satan's payroll: when the time came, it was one of them who tossed the convent key over the wall to Osio...
Although Carnovsky is not a large man (5 ft. 9 in., 165 Ibs.) he dominates the stage at Stratford with such extraordinary passion that the rest of the cast seems physically small by comparison. "I grew up with an inherited sense of the tragic, a sense of loss," he says. Whatever sense of tragedy he may have got from his impoverished childhood in St. Louis, he must feel a sense of high achievement in Connecticut. For night after night he sends his Stratford audiences home in tears...
...final scene, when she is alone on the stage, but unconvincing both as a brash schoolgirl and as a discarded girlfriend. Franklin Johnson's Jim is adequate, but not commanding enough to save Miss Gerety's poorer scenes. He hardly ever rises to the level of high passion O'Neill demands...