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...Director Russell makes every character grotesque, every bar of music programmatic. Ballets are transformed into pastoral scenes, concertos into imaginary duels. In a crescendo of vulgarity, the 1812 Overture becomes, in Tchaikovsky's beleaguered brain, an execution. Each cannon shot lops off the head of a tormentor: sister (Sabina Maydelle), patron, lover...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: False Notes | 2/8/1971 | See Source »

...more like a bringing down, a reduction to absurdity of the meaning and intent of learning. Is there then any rational basis for optimism? It is arguable. Perhaps, reason and prophecy to the contrary, man must rely on the instinctive hope, the muted gaudeamus, expressed by the maid Lily Sabina in Wilder's play...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Age: Muted Gaudeamus | 4/18/1969 | See Source »

...time, but has a tendency to mix, or imperfectly finish its conventions. The third act opening (where the play stops because seven of the company are struck with botulism) is magnificent and hilarious because the whole company, especially Beck and Jamie Rosenthal (playing a Miss Somerset playing Sabina, George Antrobus' maid and quondam mistress) degenerates from high flown symbols to grumbling Loebies. The switch is drastic and devastating...

Author: By George H. Rosen, | Title: The Skin of Our Teeth | 11/10/1966 | See Source »

...Mail. What excited Fleet Street was a novel slice of cheesecake: pert, serious Cinemactress Vivien Leigh, wife of Sir Laurence Olivier, and a grandmother at 45. Last week trim Lady Olivier slipped on a red satin bathing suit and black mesh stockings, made a slinky, twittery TV debut as Sabina, the talkative, never-say-die seductress-maid in Thornton Wilder's The Skin of Our Teeth. Critical verdict: Vivien once more proved that good legs are a ho-hum show's best means of support...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 30, 1959 | 3/30/1959 | See Source »

...SABINA L. LOMMERSE Belmont, Mass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 7, 1958 | 4/7/1958 | See Source »

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