Word: stage
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tennessee Williams may present us with many moments that try our patience with their childlike cries of self-pity and loneliness, but when he touches on a nerve of human experience, as he most certainly can, something quite electric takes place and suddenly the stage is filled with light. In his attempt to depart as thoroughly as possible from the Broadway production, Mr. Rabb fails to let us see that light, and gives us instead something more like the gaudy, flashing neon signs that outline his production--occasionally bright, but seldom brilliant
...other actors, including a wisely anonymous George Spelvin, seemed to have lacked a director. And it was rather disconcerting that a pair of shoes which was taken off in January (act I) had not been removed from the stage by June...
...much a motion picture as a photographed opera. Just to make sure the customers get the point, Vienna-born Director Otto Preminger has directed most of it as though it were a Bayreuth production of Gōtterdāmmerung, Choruses march and countermarch; actors lumber woodenly about the stage, obviously counting their steps, and then suddenly take up a stance and break into song. And for some strange, wrong reason -perhaps to give the show an elevated, operatic tone-the actors speak in precise, cultivated accents that are miles away from the Negro slums of South Carolina. For that...
Mecca to Arafat. On the eighth day came the final stage of the pilgrimage-the 15-mile walk to the valley of Arafat, where all hadjis must be present at the same time to listen to prayers recited on Mount Arafat. The temperature that day was well over 100°, and the old and weak were dropping everywhere. Tubs of water were available for dunking heat-exhaustion victims. "Even if they don't recover," said one veteran, "they are perfectly happy, because they have died on a hadj.'' The death rate for this year's pilgrimage...
...with the low, rambling Florida beach house. Architect Rudolph erected a building of surprising elegance and solidity on Casey Key, a sand strip near Sarasota, Fla. A shoebox on the exterior, the house is full of surprises inside. Ten rooms are ranged over five different levels like so many stage elevations. Ceilings vary from 16 ft. 6 in. (for the broad beach porch) to 8 ft. 4 in. (for the bedrooms) in an attempt "to introduce a certain amount of adventure into the progression through the various areas...