Word: stageful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mark Twain Tonight! The stage is a faded daguerreotype, with a high, old-fashioned lectern, a desk with a topply mound of books and a cut-glass pitcher of water, a McKinley-era chair. Into this setting shuffles the spry, white-maned humorist in the white suit. Involuntary tremors ripple the stiffened fingers, the lower jaw nibbles spasmodically at wisps of tobacco-stained mustache, the shoulders twitch like marionettes in the invisible hands of time. But a pagan glint of eye suggests that this is a life less spent than well spent. Then the voice, cracked but not ruined, speaks...
...brilliant re-creator of Mark Twain as a septuagenarian platform lecturer is 34-year-old Hal Holbrook making his New York stage debut. An avid Twain buff since college days, TV Actor (Grayling Dennis on the CBS serial The Brighter Day, for six years) Holbrook has expertly culled Twain's speeches, autobiography and stories for his program. What emerges is no mellow dodderer, but a caustic sage brimming with skeptic laughter...
Born. To Joanne Woodward, 29, Hollywood's 1957 Oscar-winning "best actress" (Three Faces of Eve), and Paul Newman, 34, actor of stage (Sweet Bird of Youth) and screen (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof): their first child, a daughter (he has three children by an earlier marriage) ; in Manhattan. Name: Elinor Theresa...
...more civilized post, but not de Goltz. Half Dutch, half native, he knows that he has reached his peak, and glories in the power to flog, execute, ride herd on his three young white assistants, who fear him. When a new civil-affairs officer named Major Bluphocks arrives, the stage is set for a vicious contest of wills. He has never been up against a man like de Goltz, and in the intrigue that follows Bluphocks meets disaster, as does just about everyone else in the book...
Repertory Boston productions, although they were often favorably reviewed, failed from the beginning to attract a sufficient audience. Frequently the mammoth Wilbur Theatre had fewer than 100 people in the house, leading to jests that often there were more people on stage than in the audience...