Word: rosten
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Scene by scene the film is written-mostly by Playwright Miller; Scenarist Norman Rosten made few additions to the play-with clear intelligence and rude male force. In his direction, despite a tendency to get cute with the camera, Sidney Lumet often achieves a noble seriousness that makes the drama seem almost a rite-as is only appropriate: classic tragedy was the Dionysian counterpart of the Christian Mass. The actors without exception excel, but Actor Vallone beggars comparison. He is the gritty essence of stevedore. He looks like one of Michelangelo's Captives, half man. half rock...
...somewhat less titanic roles, Madeline Rosten (Zabina) and Booker Bradshaw (Bajadeth) caught the Marlovian pitch and battered away at their lines with enough controlled volume and barbarity to enliven every moment they were on stage. They were the only members of the company with enough vocal power to really make use of what Marlowe gave them, and I will not soon forget the sovereign articulacy this pair displayed in the infamous "braining scene...
Most of the photography is rather mediocre, with the outstanding exception of the pictures by Patricia L. Hollander '63, whose "Peace March" (first prize) appeared on the cover of the November 17 CRIMSON WEEKLY REVIEW. Constance Ross Dupee '64, and Madeline Rosten '63, both submitted fairly interesting though in no way extraordinary color photography...
...Eliot House Drama seminar's production, they are suddenly offered to us out of the air. Sitting on tall stools, 11 readers manage to fill more than 70 parts, and for the most part, their many duplications are neither annoying nor indeed very noticeable. This goes particularly for Madeline Rosten and Anna Kay Moses, the only women, switch about genially from whore to henpecker. Of all the cast they help most to keep the play from dragging. "I'm fast," says Miss Rosten engagingly, as Mae Rose Cottage. "You just wait. I'll sin till I blow...
...illuminating example of the trials of movie-making is the bit in which Casey and Babe are seen peering through an open window as Miss Rosten prepares her breakfast. Actually half of the shooting took place from inside the kitchen of Gilman House at Radcliffe. The street-view shots of the Peeping Toms, however, were taken outside the Owl Club, because the first-floor level there made peeping somewhat easier than the greater height from the ground of the Gilman kitchen. When Miss Rosten seems to be pulling the shade on her uninvited guests, the shading is actually being performed...