Word: stageful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...minimize its faults. It would be interesting to see what Frederic March or Sir John Gielgud could do with the leading role; any lesser actor would be over-parted. Robert A. Brooks, who takes the part at Kresge, has the proper dignity of bearing, and makes a noble stage figure. If he is insufficiently heroic, if he does not project the proper intensity of fanaticism, if he is not completely at home with the witty Doctor's epigrams, still he has moments of great effectiveness. Earle Edgerton and Dean Gitter play the murderers with unflagging grim conviction, though they...
...among the most pulse-racing moments in the history of the theatre. The scene, by contrast, where Alice wakes up to see the familiar symbols of reality, the beard, the pipe, and the framed diploma from Vienna, is as heartwarming an affirmation as has ever been presented on the stage. Magnificent--a word not often used in these pages--is the only word to describe the number she sings at this point, I'll Crouch on My Couch, which closes the show on a swelling note of hope...
...pages, but I have to go write a letter to my fiancee telling her that our marriage can never be, because I love another. But I urge everyone to flock in droves to Girl in a Hole. (I'm going back myself, if I can get the assistant stage manager to let me in free.) Girl in a Hole may be tripe, but nobody can deny it's got guts...
Rubenstein said last night that the proposed method of attack is a two-stage operation. A long period of research into every facet of delinquency will be followed by an intensive period of direct field work and contact with the minors involved...
...representative sequence is Cabiria in the vaudeville house. In the middle of a realistic film, this peculiar fantasy scene stands out memorably. She is inveigled onto the stage by a top-hatted hypnotist who is the devil; she is put in a trance. With a wreath of paper flowers in her hair she is made to dream that she is about to enter into chaste matrimony with a handsome prince. Her face is transformed from a bedraggled chippie's to an incarnation of Hawthorne's Hilda. Then the devil snaps his fingers, house lights come up, and she awakens...