Word: romanticization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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A warm, romantic production of Much Ado About Nothing has got the Group 20 Players off to an impressive start in their seventh season. Their approach to the play is avowedly different from customary ones; and this approach took a good deal of courage.
Lean, grey-haired Max Conrad is a throwback to the romantic days when pilots flew for fun and adventure as much as for profit. But he got into flying by accident. After college he started an orchestra, took up flying only so that he could transport his band from place...
The Misfortunes of Simone continued when, after World War I, her father lost his money. At the university. Simone strove so relentlessly for her doctorate that she earned her famed nickname. "Beaver." All work and little play did not dull the beaver's tooth for philosophic talk, but the...
This and other musical numbers are strung together like unmatched beads, but some of them have the wicked glint of genuine satire. Party Song stingingly peppers the social climbers of suburbia. Rejection ("that childhood rejection") does the same for the hobohemian set. New York is a cathartic for all the...
He has done, as usual, a pretty slick job as a straight-face comic, and he would have done a better job-along with Actor Douglas and Actress Reynolds-if Director George Marshall had not decided to play The Mating Game at a speed less suitable to a romantic comedy...