Word: peeled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Eliot: The Cocktail Party (original Broadway cast: Alec Guinness, Cathleen Nesbitt, Robert Flemyng, Eileen Peel, Irene Worth, Ernest Clark, Grey Blake; Decca, 4 sides LP). Listening to this recording is an experience in the music of the English language, as well as a plunge into the drawing-room metaphysics of Poet Eliot's hit play (TIME, Jan. 30). Recording: excellent...
Farce, he believes, is not so good: "Take a man slipping on a banana peel-you've got to see the expression on his face. The TV camera misses that. Farce happens across the room and the camera always gets it too late." It is the same with acting: "It has to be small-you can't project as you would on the stage. And positions can be every bit as important as lines. If an actor is six inches off base, he may be out of the camera...
...Lanai, the plantation workers to Oahu. Both had a day's inspection trip, plus banquets, entertainment and pay. Plantation Worker Luis Espina, who had not been off Lanai Island in 17 years, gasped when he saw row on row of the cannery's machines core and peel 100 fresh pineapples a minute. Said he: "I never knew such things existed...
...wonders at. It is the regular thing . . . The poorest people are dependent on willow and elm leaves, elm bark, and the various weeds . . . All the elm trees about many of the villages are stripped of their bark as high as the starving people can manage to get; they would peel them to the top but haven't the strength...
Actually, Lavinia Chamberlayne has left her husband. After five years of marriage she and Edward (Eileen Peel and Robert Flemyng) are neither happy nor faithful. Yet when the unknown guest agrees to bring Lavinia back, Edward is curiously glad; and though he has had a much sounder relation with Celia Coplestone (Irene Worth), he now doesn't want her. When Lavinia does come back, she and Edward neurotically taunt each other...