Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...between the production and real dramatic meaning was built by too much effort rather than too little. By trying too hard to be epic, the director misses small and thoughtful values Novel staging and the like is to be commended but it can't stand by itself. The presentation seems to lack a unifying mind behind it. Thus the actors seem all too often as if they were emoting for their own benefit, rather than reaching for a sense of action and reaction which would make the play come to life...
...perfectly truthful, he does seem to have developed late in large-muscle control...
...sprawling ugliness of a three-story Willard Hotel that seems to imprison the audience as well as the players, this pallid version of Broadway's Look Homeward, Angel has just enough story line for a wistful, low-key one-act play. The line goes hopelessly slack in the second and third acts when Playwright Sergel keeps falling back on his first. Even the major Anderson characters seem thin, and for a good reason. Anderson merely sketched them with evocative daubs; his adapter failed to fill them out with the detail demanded by the theater. Out of misapplied reverence...
...races won, in friends made. (As if to prove it, Willie the Shoe last week brightened the ninth year of his career by becoming the seventh jockey ever to ride 3,000 winners.) He is a patient, gentle, honest rider who somehow transmits his gentility to his mounts. They seem to run for Shoemaker out of sheer desire not to let him down. Shoemaker's finesse is a private communication with his horse...
...styles are scarcely comparable. Marx-Engels wrote in fire; Kelso-Adler seem to be writing under water. Yet the book achieves a triumph of grey matter over grey manner. Four points stand...