Word: sylvia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sylvia Short, as Queen Isabella, sometime object of a faded emotion, gave one of the show's finest performances in her wistful role--despite her phony French accent. The latter, shared by Peter Donat in his interpretation of Piers Gaveston, is more forgiveable because it is called for in Treece's stage directions. But it is as historically anachronistic as it was poorly done...
...ASTRA SYLVIA TREI New York City...
...director, Michael Linenthal, coordinates action and characters adequately, but the actors themselves hardly ever achieve competence. Cathleen would be a fine role for Siobhan McKenna, as Sylvia Weld no doubt realizes, but Miss Weld's half-hearted imitation of Miss McKenna often becomes mannered, and shrinks the great beauty of Cathleen's character...
...best popular song around, though, is Mickey and Sylvia's "Love is Strange" with intriguing lyrics and an exceptionally frantic instrumental background of electric guitar notes effectively capture the spirit of the age. Songs with more --- lyrics are Hadda Brook's "Old Man River" and Bob Cort's "It takes a Worried Man to Sing a Worried Blues...
...from UNICEF. The show was filmed by two CBS-TV camera crews over a seven-week tour of three continents and brilliantly edited (from 240,000 ft. to 10,000 ft.) by See It Now Producers Edward R. Murrow and Fred Friendly, and by Kaye and his wife, Lyricist Sylvia Fine...