Word: stevension
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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As the Marschallin, whom Strauss describes as "a beautiful woman of 32 . . . with Viennese grace and lightness," who has "one wet eye" from the loss of her young lover Octavian "and one dry" with sophistication, pretty Soprano Eleanor Steber could not quite make up in tenderness and charm what she...
Clouded Crystal. In Philadelphia, Judge Harry S. McDevitt asked how Mrs. Dorothy Stevens, arrested for fortunetelling, went about it, released her when her lawyer answered: "She doesn't do it very well. If she could, she wouldn't be here now."
Faulkner's detective-hero, Gavin Stevens, is a small-town Mississippi lawyer with gritty common sense and a shrewd insight into poor-white psychology that enables him to unravel his county's crimes. Up to a point he is both likeable and credible-a Yoknapatawpha County Sherlock Holmes...
It was also a challenge to the actors, who met it only middling well. Robert Fletcher, for the most part, had sufficient vitality for his part as Don Juan. The star, however, was not impressive. In her unwillingness, as Dona Ana, to accept the kind of Hell and Heaven she...
Chekhov is ideal material for a repertory group because so many of the smaller parts can prove to be gems when given the attention of first-class actors. In the present production, Peter Temple as the schoolmaster, Semyon, Donald Stevens as Sorin, and Jeanne Tufts as Polina are cases in...