Word: stars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Guinness' current vehicle, now at the Saxon Theatre, is a film version of Daphne DuMaurier's novel The Scapegoat. This affords the star another opportunity to undertake more than one role. But whereas he portrayed an octet of completely different characters in Kind Hearts and Coronets, his task here is in some ways much more difficult: Guinness, without benefit of contrasting makeup or costume, has to portray two men visually identical and sometimes conversing with each other--a British college French teacher on vacation in France, and a French count. The latter tricks the former into taking his place...
Playing the title role will be Jason Robards, Jr., who regards this as the most strenuous and important task of his career. Opposite him as Lady Macbeth will be Siobhan McKenna, the star of the group's first production, Twelfth Night. The show will run until August...
Earle Edgerton, who played a leading role in the HSTG's production of No Exit last summer, will star in the new production as Sheridan Whiteside, the superbly nasty "wit, critic, lecture, radio orator, and intimate friend of the great and near-great" who is marooned by a broken hip in the home of what appears to be an aggressively ordinary Ohio family. Mikel Lambert, a student at the Summer School, will play his romantically involved secretary, and Marguerite Tarrant, a student at the Yale School of Drama, will appear as a nymphomaniacally inclined actress...
...Star of the Spoleto performance was brilliant Turkish Soprano Leyla Gencer, who in the role of Renata demonstrated one reason why Flaming Angel (now available in a Westminster recording) is so rarely produced: the heroine, onstage and singing almost constantly, is required to deliver some of her most memorable lines while crawling on the floor or hopping in hysterical convulsions. Said Director Frank Corsaro plaintively about the work: "I want to move it to New York, but nobody wants...
...magnificent body, and within two years of her debut the fact was proclaimed in the Manhattan press, which pronounced her the "ideal woman." Overnight, Belle became The Body of her generation. Reporters wrote paeans to her "poetic legs." Barnum offered her $1,000 a week to star in one of his sideshows. Diamond Jim Brady squired her about. Teddy Roosevelt came to her flat with friends and enjoyed himself so thoroughly that he sent Belle a full set of Haviland china in appreciation...