Word: rosalinde
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August 13 to August 18: Rosalind Elias in "Bittersweet...
...Miss Hayes essays Rosalind. We are supposed to believe that this gray-haired, begowned lady well into her sixties is a young girl disguised as a young man (an Elizabethan spectator would be expected to take this lady for a boy playing a girl disguised as a young man--the kind of multiple twist that only Genet in The Maids has been able to bring off to perfection...
...merchant who slaps his lips together when he eats, picks his teeth elaborately when he's done, thinks TV is the greatest thing since the sofabed, and looks uneasy when people talk about Sophocles' Electra-he figures maybe it's an airplane or something. Mother Harrington (Rosalind Russell) is a charming monster of self-deception who married father because he looked safe, loathes him for his vulgarity, stays on "for the children's sake," hates herself for wasting her life, takes her hatred out on her husband, and compensates her unhappiness by cultural climbing that doesn...
Steve Botein occasionally founders on the dialect, but he is generally effective as Preacher Haggler. In the church scene, he is overpowering as, sweating profusely, he shouts down the devil. Arthur Roberts competently plays Marvin Hudgens, who lusts after Barbara Allen, and Sarah Leary and Rosalind Miller are two of the sexiest, most fetching little witches you could ever hope...
...center on a Y.M.C.A. basketball squad, but sputters sourprises like a bright, green Lemmon. Funnywoman Paula Prentiss, 23, is a Texas skyscraper (5 ft. 9¼ in.) who can look slim Jim in the eye without a periscope, and can come on and cut up like a junior-miss Rosalind Russell. If humor were measured in inches, Hutton and Prentiss would be the daffiest double in show business; since it isn't, they are merely the most promising young pair of romanticomedians currently in camerange. Last year they got off to a funning start in Where the Boys...