Word: stageful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...scene between Launcelot and Old Gobbo, is, on the printed page, one of Shakespeare's weakest comic passages; and, on the stage, it usually proves to be an embarrassing interlude. For the first time in my experience, thanks to Frederic Warriner's Launcelot and Stanley Jay's Gobbo, the scene came out satisfactorily; their combined antics were most hilarious...
...Strijdom. White-haired, pink-cheeked Dr. Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd (pronounced Fair Voort) looked more like an off-duty Santa Claus than a hard-fisted authoritarian. Yet in his eight years as Minister of Native Affairs, he had proved himself pre-eminent among all the racists crowding the South African stage...
Undisturbed by fathers, the girls scissored across the stage in evening gowns and swimsuits, ate their breakfasts under the eyes of table-hopping judges (who watched for such lapses as overextended pinkies while holding a coffee cup). The contestants also sang, played musical instruments, recited. Miss Georgia (Jeannette Arlene Ardell, 19; 35½-24-36) punctured four balloons with her bow and only seven arrows; and Miss Maryland (Mary Roberta Page, 18; 36-24½-36) drew a horse in luminous chalk...
...match racing between near-equal boats, i.e., that the start, which is usually into the wind, is crucial. The boat that can leap out a bit ahead of its opponent can blanket or backwind the following yacht. Both skippers are also skilled at the sly tactics of dodging blanketing, stage such realistic faking of new tacks that their scurrying foredeck crews even prepare to take the gigantic genoa jibs to the lee side-the usual preparations for coming about...
...over his buddy's death have led him to give up bed for the bottle. In the end he makes his peace with his father and promises to make true Maggie's lie that she is pregnant. But the outcome is of meager importance. Playwright Williams' stage is filled not with actors in a drama, but with dancers in a psychiatric striptease; when the last veil has been discarded, any further steps are superfluous...