Word: portrayed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...women. But after all this simply reversed the ancient practice, which allowed all-male casts only. A few of the big roles could have stood better acting; yet Jeannette Hume had a number of fine moments as Elektra. And it was a good idea for Elizabeth Scarff to portray Cassandra as insane, for this made more credible the continued disbelief of all her auditors. I do wish something had been done about the actresses' accents: Attic Greek just does not mix with a Southern United States drawl...
...Hilton management. It was obviously tempting to make a musical of James Hilton's famous story about plane-wrecked Occidentals discovering an Asian Utopia where life is serene, desires are moderate, people mellow. But there is possibly something more than just comic about using a Broadway musical to portray serenity and moderation. There is something truly misguided: a Broadway musical is one of the very few places where a controlled frenzy and a tasteful immoderacy seem in order...
...increasing to $3,000,000 the annual U.S. contributions to the International Labor Organization and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the U.N. Ohio Republican Bricker insisted that the extra money be withheld until Iron Curtain representatives are expelled from the ILO. Against Administration objections that the rider would portray the U.S. as dictating to the free world, 35 Republicans and eight Democrats voted to give Bricker his way. ¶ Approve, without debate in the Senate, a bill increasing the maximum Smith Act penalty for advocating the overthrow of the U.S. Government from ten years and $10,000 fine...
...most direct assertion of freedom appears in Auto de Fe, in which an asthmatic and, presumably, latent homosexual youth faces his intractable mother, who represents social conscience. Playing the young man, Eloi, Glenn Goldburg uses immobile arms to portray his constriction and an extravagant Southern accent to emphasize the wildness of his hysteria. His greatest asset, however, is an extremely expressive face which fully reveals his sensitivity and agitation. In contrast is his mother, who is played by Elaine Gordon with such great stolidity and waspishness that one strongly sympathizes with Eloi's escape, violent...
...triumph of Richard is the triumph of sheer mummery-though inevitably the applause will not go to all the actors in equal measure. The women are excellent. Claire Bloom, as Richard's wife, has no choice but to portray a pallid case of hemi-Ophelia, but her softness is a fine contrast to the hard shape of Richard. Pamela Brown as the king's mistress, a role tellingly interpolated by Olivier, is magically effective; she says but four words ("Good morrow, my lord"), but she hangs in the offing like a sensuous portrait by Rubens, and fills...