Word: plays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...another standout performance, as Chief of the Bureau of Naval Personnel from 1953-58, as the Navy came out of Korea. Once more Holloway impressed his stamp on the Navy in styled phrases, e.g., "We should get the best people we can for these jobs and make them play over their heads," and Holloway's choices usually did just that...
...casket-choosing scenes can be a bore, too. But Jay, doubling as the Prince of Arragon, emerges as a delightful fop. Robert Evans makes the Prince of Morocco a glum, dead-pan character, with unfortunate results. The only way to save him is to play him for comedy, as Earle Hyman did so tellingly last year...
Robert Blackburn brings plenty of verve to the role of the play's hero, Bassanio. Basil Langton fails to give much color to the flat title role of Antonio. Malocclusive sibilants unsuit Thomas Hill (the Duke of Venice) for classical speaking; he should stick to playing Willy Loman and other such parts, which are ideal for him. Of the smaller roles, Robert Jordan's Solanio is outstanding...
...stars do well indeed in the final play, Ways and Means, one of the best of the set. A bedroom comedy, complete with burglar, about a pair of upper-class house guests, out of funds, whose hostess wants to get rid of them, it is consistently funny. But why do they omit the final line? Without it, the end falls flat...
...middle item, Shadow Play, is a confused, stylized soap opera about a marriage on the rocks. It uses flashbacks, flashaheads, and flashbetweens, with songs and rhymed couplets tossed in, if you please. It shows that the two stars ought not to sing in public; but it does provide a good final examination for lighting technicians and stagehands...