Word: splendorful
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...ambassador did not seem particularly enchanted with Detroit, nor with the detectives who formed a wall of flesh around him throughout his visit. But he was shown capitalistic splendor of all types. He was taken to the Ford plant, equipped with goggles, and directed to stare into an open hearth furnace. Russian-born Mike Mukol, a steelworker, was called up to explain everything...
...rest of the cast successfully immerses itself in the galvanic carnival spirit, with enough bravura to match the elegance and color of the costuming and the traditional splendor of the deep-cut sets. Ruth Ford, a fetching Roxane, knows the coquette routine thoroughly, though at times she plays it over-precious. The supporting characters are without depth, as the playwright drew them, and beyond Hiram Sherman's foppish Ragineau, there was little opportunity for scene stealing...
...Such splendor falls on theater stalls only on great occasions. This, in a way, was a great one: Better Late, Bea Lillie's first British musical* since 1942. The show itself was not much. Sighed the News Chronicle: "... A thing of shreds and patches-witty shreds and blank patches." The blank patches were very, very blank, particularly an aching void called Give My Love to London...
Henry V. Shakespeare and Laurence Olivier work together for their common splendor (TIME, April...
Henry V. Shakespeare and Laurence Olivier work together for their common splendor (TIME, April...