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...sister-in-law, mixing resentment for her toiling and skimping with a warmth and tenderness. James Stinson plays her sympathetic husband with suitable low pressured earnestness. Roger Moldovan is more than effective in the lead, without being over-sentimental. Robert Hesse looks properly drunk and idiotic in the walk-on part, and Lee Jefferies is suberbly plastered as an old love of the hero who intrudes at an inconvenient moment...
Circus Leaper. As O'Connor sees it, the reason for his TV success is that television closely approximates the conditions of vaudeville, and vaudeville is where he learned all he knows about show business ("I had my first walk-on part when I was 13 months old"). His father was a County Cork strongman and circus leaper who could spring from a trampoline over the backs of four elephants. His mother was so determined a trouper that she kept on performing until three days before Donald was born, 27 years ago. With his parents and six brothers & sisters, Donald...
...being put in production by Michael Benthall and Robert Helpmann. Says Benthall: "Suddenly, this little girl appeared and did the poison speech from Romeo and Juliet. She looked enchanting. More important, she had extraordinary technical equipment." The cast was already filled, but Benthall and Helpmann invented a new walk-on part so that they could keep an eye on Claire. When they took over the 1948 Shakespeare season at Stratford-on-Avon, Claire went along...
...patronage assistant, Donald Dawson, sounded out Justin Miller, chairman of the National Association of Radio and Television Broadcasters, former federal judge, onetime dean of Duke University law school. This activity was reported on the nation's front pages. That was the setting for Howard McGrath's walk-on at the Cabinet meeting...
Ibsen & Spam. Like the rest of the series, The Later Ego (Egos 8 & 9) is larded with letters from friends and fans, old reviews, quotations from favorite authors. But these are only walk-on bits. The leading "character" is still James Agate, and the role he plays with the most zest is Victorian-conservative-at-bay. From modern art to modern man, he was convinced that the 20th Century was a dubious conspiracy against good sense, good taste, and good James Agate. Wearing the chips on his shoulders like epaulets, he waged a steady duel with his time...