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...cited the difficult role of Miriamne, the female lead, as an example. A few weeks before the play was scheduled to go into rehearsal, it was still without a heroine. Even Theodore P. Allegretti '49 who plays Mio, the male lead, and before the war a Shakespearian thespian, was on the lookout for a suitable co-star...
Moreover, the picture is a Thespian witches' Sabbath. Except when she overuses her eyes in fey moments, Jennifer Jones more than delivers on the promise of her Song of Bernadette. Restrained Joseph Gotten gives the film its needed ballast of sanity. Hilt-deep supporting performances are contributed by Gladys Cooper, Cecil Kellaway, and a brilliant Australian named Ann Richards. She has three-alarm beauty and four-alarm talent, and is the only screen actress since Ingrid Bergman to look wonderful in a shirtwaist...
...players in this thespian venture are candidates for the society, thus following the HDC tradition of using only untried actors for each season's initial performance...
...pitiful Army Doctor who takes to drink to escape from his failure in life; his Act III soliloquy, which in less capable hands could have become bathetic, is exactly right. Ruth Gordon is an extremely lifelike Natasha, so lifelike in fact that one comes from the theatre hating her thespian guts. And Judith Anderson turns in a finely turned performance as Olga, bearing her neurosis ably. Miss Cornell, The Lady With the Manner, is as wonderful as ever. Although the play has no one outstanding role, Katherine Cornell's Masha in black habit and, mood makes the most...
Featuring the Thespian artistry of Roger B. Merriman '96, professor of History, in a leading comic role, Eliot House will present Thomas Middleton's Elizabethan comedy "A Trick to Catch the Old One," on Wednesday night, December 18, at 8 o'clock in the House Dining Room...