Word: suitoring
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...evening his "little girl," aged 19, casually breaks the news that she plans to marry a "terribly wonderful" young man. Tracy conjures up nightmarish notions of what the suitor may be like, browbeats his wife (Joan Bennett) for her unseemly calm. At their first meeting, he coldly appraises the young man (Don Taylor), fumbles with small talk, sighs resignedly as he sees the couple's eyes for each other. "Right then," he recalls, "I realized that my day was over...
...have money to support his bride in the manner to which she was accustomed (i.e., enough capital to withstand any possible competition and to finance any possible expansion). Pereira Ignacio passed on that count-his father and he had already made millions in textiles and concrete. But the suitor must also measure up in character and honor and local reputation. When Pereira Ignacio passed on this count, too (he had studied at Cornell, entertained progressive views on labor relations), a formal bottler's agreement was finally signed...
...tills quite fetchingly. She screeches, dreams, and flirts most convincingly. Sherman Hawkins, as her husband, acted very well, but he did not seem old enough either in voice or make-up. His performance, however, in the puppet scene was delightfully witty. Richard Heffron was hilarious as the pulsive suitor, and Roger Butler as the youthful sympathiser of the shoemaker's wife was highly amusing. The chorus of "over-pious women" and neighbors, who periodically pass by the window of the shoemaker's house to pass moral judgement, was extremely humorous...
...play is also paced so slowly as to seem not leisurely but monotonous. And its texture turns curiously coarse at times, its curtains much too emphatic. Yancy Loper, the conquering parvenu, is conventionalized into an ardent suitor for Lucy's hand; while the profoundly Chekhovian ending, with the old servant thoughtlessly locked up in the deserted house, was dropped during the tryout because audiences seemed "angered...
...damnation are as palpable and pervasive as the terrifying Christmas Day blizzard that forces his characters to cast up their spiritual accounts in an eerie English country house. All Williams needs to get things started is a rare deck of cards, the perfectly normal Coningsby family and a suitor for Nancy Coningsby who has gypsy connections. From there on, in deceptively simple prose, Williams keeps his story moving without a hitch on three levels: 1) a more-or-less conventional love story; 2) a psychological and poetic mystery which employs gypsy magic and visitations from out of this world...