Word: perform
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Tchin-Tchin is a cheery drink-up expression, but all the hero and heroine of this play have to swallow are the lees of abandonment by their mutually unfaithful spouses. As the pair of wistful rejects, Margaret Leighton and Anthony Quinn perform with sorcery...
...came alarmed at the high cost of ignorance in 1959, when the recession receded but relief rolls kept climbing. In a survey of able-bodied reliefers, he discovered that 50% were "functional illiterates," incapable of reading street signs, want ads, or the simplest instructions, and therefore unable to perform even most "service" jobs...
...final note of caution: the four players mentioned above perform only in the evening. The excessive demands of the roles make it folly to attempt more than one performance a day (Salvini, remember, refused to play Othello more than four times a week). The matinee performances, therefore, offer a completely different cast; and there seems general agreement that only Kate Reid's Martha can stand up alongside the evening counterpart...
...hinged portrait in a salon, which swung back to reveal a trophy room hung with "guns ranged in big racks, ticketed with numbers corresponding to a register in which were recorded the shots fired from each. "There were, each summer, strolling players who would politely request per mission to perform in the theater. When someone went for a walk, there was a carriage assigned to follow at a sedate pace in case they tired...
...critic, then, must understand is involved in the preparation of dent performance. He must know limitations and difficulties of music with amateur players or . He must know the complications organization and management have to be overcome by students not have the equipment or of professionals. The critic must understand the purposes and policies involved, such as the decision to great work imperfectly rather than successfully perform an easy show...