Word: soliloquys
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...reasons why the Russians don't want war, and is promptly fired. On top of that, his pretty wife (played by Valentina Serova, Playwright Simonov's wife) prepares to leave him in a climactic scene (see cut) and he is dispossessed. But in a concluding soliloquy, Smith reassures the audience-he will not hang himself. His honesty unsullied, he will start life all over again, fighting for a better America. Whether or not he takes the subway straight down to Union Square is left to the audience's imagination...
Although claiming that it is "difficult to act in the morning, before dinner," Gielgud consented to entertain his audience with the "Oh, that this too, too solid flesh" soliloquy from "Hamlet...
Concluded Pundit Lawrence: "If Governor Dewey is given at all to soliloquy . . . he must inevitably come to the conclusion that he is, indeed, a lucky...
...characterizations are distinguished, with that of Edmund Gwenn as Dr. Chebutykin outstanding. Gwenn captures all the inherent pathos in the character of the pitiful Army Doctor who takes to drink to escape from his failure in life; his Act III soliloquy, which in less capable hands could have become bathetic, is exactly right. Ruth Gordon is an extremely lifelike Natasha, so lifelike in fact that one comes from the theatre hating her thespian guts. And Judith Anderson turns in a finely turned performance as Olga, bearing her neurosis ably. Miss Cornell, The Lady With the Manner, is as wonderful...
Crotchety Robert L. ("Muley") Doughton, chairman of the prima donna-packed House Ways & Means Committee, felt the tax rub. His own soliloquy: "We are dealing with the most hateful, difficult problem that ever came along in the annals of mankind...