Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Charity. Their leader, Sister Superior Maria Loretta, had spent 27 uninterrupted years in China's interior; all the others had served at least 18 years, and expected never to see the U.S. again. Their orphanage, hospital and teaching mission were tucked away in mountainous upper Hunan, far out of reach of electric lights and telephones. But not out of reach of Mao Tse-tung...
...Dailey) and an expert "inside man" (Sam Jaffe) into a manufacturing partnership in the $10.95 dress line, cons her sister into putting up the money for her stake. Eager to climb the garment center escalator from dresses to frocks to gowns, she double-crosses Dailey by making a tricky deal with an unctuous department-store tycoon (George Sanders). But when the time comes to leave her partners bankrupt and give Sanders his price (payable in his bachelor quarters), the tigress melts into a woman with a weakness for long-suffering Salesman Dailey...
...bodies of a New England family; his characters never speak for themselves, their earthly selves, but always for their symbolic selves, and for the author.) The son returns and stirs up the maelstrom of hatred and misunderstanding which is basic in his family. His eldest brother hates him; his sister commits incest with the eldest brother in the course of trying to persuade him to be reconciled with the prodigal; the second son, a parson, wrestles in agony with the problem of what to tell his flock about the prodigal's return; the father and mother are incorrigibly domestic...
...then Mr. Phelps hit us with the third act. The character one had tagged as the Prodigal Son suddenly began to behave suspiciously like Christ; the incestuous brother and sister began to look more and more like Adam and Eve; symbol pressed on symbol and character after character rose to speak weighty and prophetic words. It was too much. The New England family became a group of actors mouthing profoundities; the play, as a drama, collapsed. The gardener, who had previously had the quite sufficiently exalted role of Chorus, began to speak in the third act of "my seasons...
...fitfully passionate for my taste, but again I think the blame lies in the parts. Donald Mork, however, brought his excellent voice and presence to the similar part of the parson and turned in a much better balanced performance. Joanna Brown, too, did a better-rounded job as the sister. George Clark was spotty in the role of the Gardener-Chorus (-God?): at times he was excellent, but he pitched some of his lines too loud and swallowed others. The remainder of the cast did well; and everyone spoke the verse with authority...