Word: truex
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...band of genuinely old troupers Raymond Walburn (78), Ernest Truex (75), Madge Kennedy (75), and Ethel Griffies (87), plus Ingénue Heidi Murray (17), handle with finesse lines that they ought scarcely to have touched. As Mrs. Lord, Ruth Gordon (69) relies on her trademarks rather than her talents, notably a nasally barbaric yawp of a voice that would have stopped Genghis Khan in his Asiatic steppes. Woman is her lost labor of self-love...
...prostitute. In her older years she is Ruth Gordon (her first Broadway appearance since The Matchmaker); in her younger years she is Diane Cilento. Both are onstage much of the time, the old whore passing comment on the young. Among her lovers and clients: Sam Levene, Ernest Truex. The play was favorably received in Philadelphia by two out of four reviewers. The News, whose regular critic was barred from the theater by Producer David ("The Abominable Showman") Merrick for being five minutes late, called it "an indigestible mixture of sex and booze, sex and gambling, sex and broken homes." (March...