Word: swordplay
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...with the swift possibilities of its silence. Past experiments with color have been unsatisfactory principally because colors did not reproduce exactly; in this tinted drama involving an English slave and a Viking Princess, the old trouble continues -blue is not blue, brown not brown. Melodramatic episodes of Norse swordplay, and voyaging ships give an old-fashioned atmosphere to a story that could not have been exciting even if it were more intelligently directed. Best shot: the discoverer of America* going ashore at Newport...
Walter Woolf's buoyant masculinity and swordplay carry the show through a somehow familiar tavern scene. After that "The Red Robe" could run along on the magnificent staging of its seventeenth century interiors,s in which Watson Barratt has secured blendings of scenery and costume second only to those in Ames' "Merchant of Venice". But by this time Violet Carlson, yellow-haired and bandy-legged, has started being the only soubrette with a baby voice who was ever funny, and Barnett Parker and Barry Lupino have burlesqued all Flanders hip boots and picture hats out of sight...
...James ("Jimmy") Walker. Prince Potenziani's governship of Rome is a mayoralty with added dictatorial powers. He is of ancient aristocratic family but likes to drive a motor car with as much reckless speed as does Dictator Benito Mussolini himself, and is skilled in the gentlemanly art of swordplay. He was accompanied by his athletic, vivacious daughter, Princess Miriam. Orating at Manhattan, he said: ". . . The Man of Destiny, Benito Mussolini . . . guided by his inexhaustible love of his fatherland . . . leads Italy with unshaken faith and a firm hand toward its new future, founded on principles of ... peace, order, discipline...
Against the culprits appeared, last week, bristling, the Attorney General, Sir Douglas Hogg. Jurymen and spectators craned forward to catch his words, for he ranks in private life with that great barrister,* Sir John Simon, as one of the few legal fencers in England whose swordplay is worth ?20,000 a year-pittance though that would be to a first rank U. S. attorney. Last week Sir Douglas Hogg adduced the testimony of faithful George Monkland and other witnesses with irrefutable force, then cried to the jury...
...oathsome brutality, lusty wine-quaffing, noisy swordplay, sly bedroom tactics, swoony madrigals, neurotic vengeance and gory fratricide of Medicean times, as set forth lavishly in The Jest by Playwright Sem Benelli, were last week introduced in Cleveland. It was the play's first U. S. performance outside of Manhattan, inevitably provoking whispered comparisons by those in the audience who had seen the John-and-Lionel-Barrymore production of 1919. But never were comparisons more idle. The occasion was the opening of the new home of the Cleveland Play House, an outstanding "little" theatre now made unique...