Word: role
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wartime Rise. In a role that seemed sure to make enemies all around, Price Boss Gordon won friends by calmly explaining the need for controls in hundreds of speeches and press conferences, then firmly enforcing the policies that had been set to harness Canada's economy. Though labor and industry grumbled at his straitjacketing of wages and prices, the rise in the cost of living was only 18%, compared to a U.S. rise...
...rather than attempting to unload some of its population into more productive work elsewhere, the Occupation and the Austrian government are reconstructing its old magnificence for what can only be a minor role in the future. The thousands of refugees who field the city and the Russians in 1945 have returned from the Western zones...
Luise Rainer, who can be remembered for her portrayal of Anna Held in the motion-picture "The Great Ziegfeld," among other outstanding roles, is still no better decribed than by the adjective "captivating." During her longer speeches Wednesday night, particularly the lyrical but incomprehensible 'play-scene' in Act I, Miss Rainer held her audience spellbound by the sheer radiance she brought to the role. During this speech, she made fewer movements than a Madonna, but at other times she did things that no American-trained actress could possibly do and get away with--the mercurial changes of mood, the intense...
...improvement over his past tendency toward staginess and oratory and gives his best performance to date. Jan Farrand is ill-cast as the faded actress, Madame Arkadina. Despite all the trickery of the theater, Miss Farrand cannot look faded. And as the physical appearance of the actress playing the role is unusually important, Miss Farrand tries to compensate for her 'shortcoming' by working doubly hard to convey the pathetic shallowness of the character. The shallowness she achieves easily enough, but the pathetic, or fatuous quality, is missing in her highflown acting...
...director of "The Sea Gull" is Albert Marre, and to him must go credit for the even flow and tempo of the production. Mr. Marre also does a creditable job of acting in the role of Trigorin. Robert O'Hearn's sets are excellent...