Word: truex
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Meadowbrook! (by Ronald Telfer and Pauline Jamerson; produced by John Yorke) is a bedroom farce that should have been left in the attic. Under his psychoanalyst's orders, a mousy, middle-aged English taxidermist (Ernest Truex) stalks sex on a Connecticut weekend. All the women in the house beat a path to his door-the housekeeper (Sylvia Field), the hostess (Grace McTarnahan) and a worldly lady playwright with heart of brass (Vicki Cummings...
...authors make the business of turning mouse into man a single-tracked exercise in tortured double meanings and thin, three-cornered situations. Truex can dig a coy toe into the carpet with the best of the professional Milquetoasts; he can be equally amusing as a self-fancied Don Juan who struts only to trip. But here he is the victim of a greater incongruity-a script that manages to make sex look pretty stale...
...allowed their serious moments, and for all Shaw's amusement, they earn a measure of his respect. But he is mainly in the mood for high jinks, and toward the end the lion is all he needs to turn the whole thing into a circus. Androcles (Ernest Truex) waltzes gaily with the lion (John Becher); Caesar is first chased by it and then takes the credit for taming it; and at the last he orders all his followers to turn Christian...
...partnership with Director Margaret Webster (Hamlet, Othello) and Producer Cheryl Craw ford (Porgy and Bess, The Tempest). It had taken the three of them two years to raise almost $300,000 from 144 stockholders (they resisted Hollywood) and to gather a permanent company, including Walter Hampden, Victor Jory, Ernest Truex and Actress Le Gallienne herself...
...years has seen one or two changes in stage method and technique, and only a very brisk and inventive production-such as Broadway got 16 years ago with Miriam Hopkins, Ernest Truex and Sydney Greenstreet in the cast-can make Lysistrata's joke funny enough for a whole evening. Last week's all-Negro production never even got off to a promising start...