Word: portrayal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nagel Nahan Ruppenthal, wife of Philip Ruppenthal '45 IL, will play Lady Percy, and HDC veteran Helen McCloskey will portray Mistress Quickly...
...French Ambassador to Rome, Cardinal de Polignac, was the first to take Pannini under his wing. He commissioned the grateful painter to portray him standing in St. Peter's. Later Pannini painted Charles III of Spain in the same setting. Sometimes, even after his reputation was assured, the artist would not refuse to turn an honest penny by decorating a villa, or whipping up cardboard clouds, fountains and triumphal arches for a sumptuous private fete. But apart from these somewhat theatrical preoccupations, most of Pannini's 74 years were spent among the monuments of a greater age, which...
...picture is, however, not altogether a thing of sheer wonder. The "hero," for instance, in his attempt to portray a starstruck artisan, wears a stunned, ox-like expression, and looks at all times like a ballet dancer converted for the occasion. In fact, his wooden absorption with creating the stone flower to the neglect of his unkissed bride and an amorous fairy queen, will for a while make you wonder about him. And Hollywoodisms creep in: the background music continually dictates what mood you must get in for upcoming scenes. And the seeking mind can read Significance into several episodes...
...splitting version of the libretto of "Dio Walkure." Kaye Ballard, appealing young newcomer, displayed a good talent for putting over a humorous song; she would go far if only she could muster enough volume for the gallery seats. Further time was killed in a tongue-in-cheek attempt to portray "The American Tragedy" via the R-H (Rodgers and Hammerstein) formula. Dreiser is already dead, but his estate might find grounds for some sort of lawsuit here...
...Ping Pong Players," a light love story written by Saroyan to illustrate the lengths to which people are driven by boredom, will be the HDC's curtain raiser. Allegretti and Miss Frances Coombs, Radcliffe '48, who portray the two main characters in the play, will engage in a ping pong game all through the dialogue. The HDC announced on Tuesday that eight winners of the PBH ping pong tournament have been given tickets to see the play...