Word: roles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...artificial snow, cold storage poultry, painfully quaint mannerisms and hideously false joviality which load this tender fable, certain genuine bits stand out by contrast. One is Reginald Owen's well modulated performance as Scrooge, which should long remain a model for enthusiastic neophyte actors who essay this role in high-school productions of the same work. Another is the reading of the nerve-racking part of Tiny Tim by eleven-year-old Terry Kilburn, who almost manages to make his notorious curtain line (''God bless us every one") seem warranted under the circumstances. Least appetizing shot...
Whimsy, wit, charm, and pace has Max Reinhardt's production of Thornton Wilder's new farce, "The Merchant of Yonkers," which opened last night with Jane Cowl in the leading role. And yet this sometimes touching story of the petty desires of mankind for excitement and fun and just a little money, is not really so different from the poignant "Our Town" in its sympathetic treatment of the average mortal, a treatment almost Dickensonian in quality which has made Mr. Wilder one of the foremost dramatists of our-time...
...somewhere, she will be made to play a whole scene with her hands in her pockets. But Miss Cowl is not the whole show by any means. Percy Waram is grand as the stingy and irascible Vanergelder, known to his subordinates as the "wolf trap". Tom Ewell, in the role of Cornelius Hackl who is getting away from it all for the first time in his life at the age of 33, is corking. June Walker, staunch old trooper, turns in an adequate performance and John Call, Joseph Sweeney, Bartlett Robinson (who looks startlingly like a Bennington drama...
...acceptance of the Grand Cross of the Order of the German Eagle* "does not . . . involve any sympathy on my part with Naziism." To prove it, he authorized a warmly pro-Jewish statement. Excerpts: "I believe that the United States cannot fail at this time to maintain its traditional role as a haven for the oppressed. . . . Because of their special adaptability . . . [the Jews] would offer to the business of this country a new impetus at a time like this, when it is badly needed. ... I am confident that the time is near when there will be so many jobs available...
...went on to say that it would sell or exchange 24 operating companies farther west, if SEC insisted, but would retain its Philippine properties as beyond the scope of the law. Ably playing to the hilt the new role of reformed penitent, the company announced: "While the changes . . . are of a sweeping character, obedience to the law, and a loyal respect for public opinion, demand that the task be performed in the best of faith...