Word: tyrant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shirt sleeves as well as gentry in starched collars and decollete. First performance was a novelty: Gioa-chino Rossini's highly difficult William Tell which Chicago had not heard since 1919. Ravinia fans were glad to hear once more Elisabeth Rethberg as Mathilde, plump soprano daughter of Tyrant Gessler, and Giovanni Martinelli as her lover Arnold, heroic tenor patriot. Soprano Rethberg's bright Saxon face will soon be tanned dark beneath her pink & white makeup, for each year she takes a house near the lake, spends long days swimming. Soon other Ravinia favorites will appear in the season...
...develop a Milne play like Mr. Hopkins. His deft hand is always there to give a push where the fragile dramatic fabric can stand it, to give gentle support where the stuff is sheer. Actor Calhern, having owed himself a good performance since his appearance in The Tyrant, makes a splendid baffled member of Parliament. If you can stand whimsy in stiff doses, Give Me Yesterday is recommended...
...examined and cross-examined, twisted and tangled on her magisterial conduct. Dressed in green, holding herself stiffly erect, the onetime Brooklyn girl answered questions briefly, almost insolently, in pseudo-Oxonian accent. Her inquisitors attempted to show that she was a falsifier of her court's official record, a tyrant on the bench who petulantly bossed defendants around at the peril of their constitutional rights, a dispenser of justice toward women offenders far less merciful than male magistrates...
...Tyrant. An unfailing source of excitement are the works of Rafael Sabatini, famed sword-&-cloakster. The Tyrant is not a dramatization of. any of the author's 25 novels, but amounts to an extract of all of them. The story is based on the conquests of Cesare Borgia in middle Italy...
...settings of The Tyrant are heavy, mournful, consistent with the drama. Miss Cahill and Mr. Calhern will probably be even more excellent in their roles when they have learned their lines...