Word: playe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...major sport gets his major "H" even if he sees only five seconds of action against Yale opponents, while an athlete in a minor sport, no matter how brilliant his record, has to be content with a small letter. And if a man in any sport does not play in his Yale contest--for whatever reasons --he has to forego his letter...
...very often that a Shakespeare revival gets as high praise as Katherine Cornell and Guthrie McClintic's "Antony and Cleopatra." Reading the superlatives leaves anyone acquainted with Shakespeare or with acting standards in a quandary after he sees the play: how can he reconcile the rave reviews with the obvious and fatal shortcomings of the current production...
...stars when they put this work on their always ambitious schedule. "Antony" has never been a success other than artistically, and the acting and staging problems it presents are brutal. The episodic nature of the action, the impossibility of getting across where or when many of the play's 42 scenes take place, and the sublety of the great character-creations all make the staging of the piece tremendously difficult...
McClintic uses standard devices to clear up plot troubles. A few cuts here and there, a minimum number of transpositions, and some scenes played in front of the curtain are employed successfully to keep the action understandable and more or less continuous. The only bad cut is at the very end, which is foolishly speeded-up. The general style and the acting, rather that the plot, are the play in any case...
Throughout the production a feeling of unevenness makes itself felt, unevenness in the pace (mostly to rushed), unevenness in the way the verse is road. The settings, while effective in a simple way, are too monotonous for a play with such brilliant potentialities. The total effect, in fact, is of pettiness rather than the richness called...