Word: whorf
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gull ranks well below his incomparable Cherry Orchard, his moving Three Sisters. The people it treats of are fibreless, end-stopped artistic folk. Self-pitying, middle-aged Actress Irina (Lynn Fontanne) shrugs, screams, clutches tight the second-rate novelist, Trigorin (Alfred Lunt). Irina's son Constantine (Richard Whorf) writes advanced plays, loves the ingenuous, stage-struck Nina (Uta Hagen), who in turn idolizes Trigorin. Nina is the sea gull- the fluttering bird whom Trigorin ruins out of thoughtless pleasure, condemning her to the life of a third-rate actress, driving Constantine to suicide...
There are several other important characters, and all are caught in the same web of failure and unrequited love. All are also well acted. The illustrious team play the actress and author, showing their usual excellence. Richard Whorf and Uta Hagen are good in the other two leading roles, but perhaps the young man is rendered too grufily...
...production is staged by John Cecil Haggott '35 who has been associated with Richard Whorf at the Beach Theatre on Cape Cod and was a former president of the Club...
...director of the production the club has signed up John C. Haggott '35, 1935 president. Last summer he was an assistant to Richard Whorf at the Beach Theatre on Cape...
...sent his wife to an asylum, tried to blight his daughter's romance, kept a mistress. His death brings to the stage an extremely agreeable detective named "Monkey" Henderson, an eccentric police officer whose physique and peculiar actions have earned him his sobriquet on the force. Performed by Richard Whorf, "Monkey" Henderson is a refreshingly new type among stage sleuths. His criminological methods are a succession of humorous short cuts, and he is bent on saving the audience's time and the taxpayer's money. The conclusion of Monkey is surprising enough, and the late Sam Janney has managed...