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Sticking his right hand under his tuxedo jacket behind his back is not enough to create the malevolent, hunchbacked Richard III. Nor has he the brio for Henry V. In Macbeth's "If it were done, when 'tis done, then 'were well/It were done quickly," etc., he follows the idiotic example of Kemble, Macready and Irving by making a full stop after 'well' and joining the rest to the next sentence. And from time to time to time Warren Enters, the director, allows Evans to lapse into his annoying mannerism of indulging in quavering drops of pitch at-phrases' ends...
...Tis seven, and I must be back...
...Columbia). 'Tis a dark and stormy night. Shouts and shots are heard. Four Yanks jump the wall of a Confederate stockade, grab a Rebel hostage and pile into the basket of an observation balloon. Whack! They cut loose. The balloon soars. "We made it! We made it!" The storm screams derision. Four days and 7,000 miles later, it hurls the fugitives into the sea and onto the beach of an island somewhere in the South Pacific...
...Tis the season to be jolly...
...President of the U.S. entered by a side door, the organ played My Country, 'Tis of Thee. The modernistic, brick and glass First Baptist Church of Bonham, Texas, was full. John Kennedy took his place in a second-row pew, beside former Presidents Dwight Eisenhower and Harry Truman, and next to Vice President Lyndon Johnson...