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...battle did not seem to be going well for Argentina, and at the very least a ferocious war had entered yet another stage???the British were poised for a major assault, and perhaps a bloody one, on Port Stanley...
Richard describes himself as "mock tough" when he first knew Philip Burton. Burton, for his part, was chiefly impressed?in Richard's first awkward go on a stage???by the boy's "astonishing audience control. He could do anything he wanted with the audience." This is one talent that can only be found, never developed, and since Richard had it, Phil Burton trained him dramatically, put an English polish on his voice without obscuring the Welsh vitality, fed him a reading list of great books, prepared him for his try for Oxford, and directed him in all his early plays...
...curtain went up last week at off-Broadway's Theater de Lys, and there on the stage???in a play called The Shepherd's Chameleon, by French Playwright Eugene Ionesco?was an actor playing a character called Ionesco, a playwright at work on a play called The Shepherd's Chameleon. Three more characters, each called Bartholomeus, turned up and began to unravel funny skeins of academic pedantry in argument with the playwright...
...Frank Borzage?who quit school at 13 and worked in a silver mine to get money to go on the stage???it was his second Academy award. His first was in 1928, for Seventh Heaven. It was the second time also for Frances Marion who, one of the most highly paid and consistently successful scenarists in Hollywood, was a star reporter in San Francisco before she started writing for the cinema at $15 a week, working up to an Academy prize in 1930 for The Big House. Lee Garmes, noted for his "low lighting," was a cameraman's assistant...
Even if it had been the effort of unknowns, Christopher Columbus would still have provoked a lively reaction. It employed a medium new to opera: the moving picture. Columbus lived his outward life upon the stage???a tragic life lacking ultimate reward because the land he discovered was given the name of another. Simultaneously, somewhat in the manner of Playwright Eugene O'Neill's Strange Interlude* there were sometimes shown on the screen his inner thoughts, sometimes his past or future, sometimes the ridicule of others against which he had always to contend. The chorus, too, behaved oddly...