Word: wangel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Among the men there is great deference paid to the orotund school of elocution of which Mr. Jewett is past master Dr. Wangel, the husband of the lady from the sea, alone succeeds in dodging the grand manner and that only on occasion. Jewett, as the Stranger who threatens the Wangels' domesticity, is as pompous and unconvincing of the hollow, haunting eye, as a Falstaff. Professor Arnholm is often a pint-size Jewett, but no matter, the focus is rarely upon...
...upon Ellida Wangel, the Lady from the Sea, that the unforgiving light of Ibson's querying is focused. And it is upon her that the whole burden of the play must fall. The unfolding of the story which is in reality an unfolding of her mind, a mind wedded to the sea, is a rapid matter, swift, sure and inevitable up to the very close. A Duse alone could maintain the tempo, with no waste gestures, no amateur hysterics which might interrupt the play's relentlessness. Two weeks of rehearsal of such a part sound farewal. Yet that...
Alexander Woollcott: "Her performance of Ellida Wangel was among the few truly beautiful and exhilarating things which we have seen in our time...