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Last week's revival was saved by its dash, Cecil Beaton leading the way with his gaudily handsome sets and wonderful costumes. Not all the cast could keep up with him, but Estelle Winwood got robust comedy out of the gossipy Duchess of Berwick, and England's lovely Penelope Ward got style, presence, even a sort of believableness into the proud, priggish young Lady Windermere...
...smartly tricked out last week. No production can keep Cyrano from seeming far too long, or press out all its wrinkles. But last week's production was robust and properly flamboyant; its duel, for instance, looked like a real duel. And its Cyrano - who is after all the whole show - was a good Cyrano. Jose Ferrer (who has ranged on Broadway from a hilarious Charley's "aunt" to an impressive lago) caught the human being in Cyrano as well as the ham. As the monstrous-nosed, self-sacrificing lover who eloquently poured out his feeling for the beautiful...
Professor Pound is proud of the fact that he has never worn an overcoat. "Heat and cold don't bother me." Physically robust, he was able to run the mile in less than five minutes when he was over 50. When he first came to Harvard he was accustomed to take a daily run around the present site of Langdell, which was then an open plot of ground known as Holmes Field. Combining his fondness for exercise with an intense interest in American history, he spent the summers from 1912 to 1920 hiking over the battlefields of the Civil...
Born in Birkenhead, England, Powell Davies spent a robust youth on his father's farm (he rode a bull calf at the age of two, wore out five motorcycles). He almost went into British politics, finally decided that "the crucial field was an honest, believable religion," was graduated from London University's Richmond College of Divinity in 1925. For three years he was a Methodist minister in London, then left for the U.S. and two consecutive pastorates in Maine...
...easy does it" tennis, decided that Pauline's strength was in her killer instinct ("She has the quality of a stevedore"). So she strengthened Pauline's weak forehand by cutting two-thirds off the backswing and adding it to the follow-through. Her service was none too robust, so Eleanor Tennant concentrated on placement. When Pauline took her revamped tennis game on tour this summer, the egg was off her face. Teacher Tennant, who has taught them both, glowingly rated Betz above Alice Marble. Most tennis experts are content to call Pauline the best in a year which...