Word: ringeing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ringmaster for the three-ring circus that surrounds Mr. Poston is George Abbott, who seems to have been directing this sort of play since long before nearly anybody was born. In his old age Mr. Abbott has grown permissive towards arm-waving and other forms of over-acting, but nobody can deny that he keeps things fairly lively. Among his hired hands, Paul Hartman is disappointing as the septuxorial playboy, but a tubby gent named John McGiver, playing the foggiest of Mr. Poston's employers, takes up some of the slack by being funny both drunk and sober...
Even the worst of the acting surpassed the technical end of things by a good deal. The door kept opening mysteriously, the telephone seemed to ring somewhere out in the quadrangle, brandy bottles turned out to be full of some bright crimson fluid. A bottle ran dry early in the second act, so that Kulukundis had to pour and drink from an empty glass. One would expect that in a production which began twenty-two minutes late, these things might have been set right...
...profession in her home town to better herself as the hired partner of a would-be bushland farmer. The crocodiles carry him off before he can plant a single bean row, but Todd shows up, ready to offer her "anything that Harry did"; he even slips a wedding ring on her finger, by way of keeping the territorial priest happy. With the help of native labor, a rich tobacco crop springs from the land, and Actress Greco gets noticeably productive herself. But the natives go off on a binge instead of liftin' that bale, and she loses the child...
Trousseau. In Johnson City, Tenn., when detectives arrested 76-year-old Ben Howard Gibbs for shoplifting, he was carrying two cartons of cigarettes, four watchbands, two pipes, four pairs of eyeglasses, 25 assorted drill bits, eleven pocket knives, a ring, a safety razor, a marriage license...
...performances on Broadway. They fell into most of the traps that Schulman avoided in A Hole in the Head. The old Jew was played by Melvyn Douglas, who is having a second career these days by taking on "character" parts; but even he could not make the play ring true...