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...Real Actress? All at once Marilyn could talk without any stutter at all. She could hardly stop talking. She was gay, and her wit ran free. She leaned less on her friends, stood more on her own feet. Her health was better. The rashes, the sweats, the psychosomatic colds came less often. The old fears were still there, but now there was a way to transform them. "I never dared to think about it," says Marilyn, "but now I want to be an artist. I want to be a real actress...
...dashing young man on the intellectual trapeze who does not even get the bacon at the end. Louis Jourdan does little to salvage the part. He is, however, overshadowed by better acting in the smaller parts, especially by Estelle Winwood, who plays Grace's Aunt Synphorosa with the wit one would expect from Guinness...
...gift for the theatricality of nothing happening, for small sudden changes of key, for the humor of despair. For all its vernacular and even outhouse touches, his is an artificial and sophisticated style, a succinct loquacity. At bottom, Godot is both a neatly fingered exercise in wit and a pointillist rendering of humanity's dark-forest moods. But its very neatness gives it rather a symbolic rat-tat-rat than something that reverberantly makes great gashes and rents. Beckett's method dispenses with the usual stage clothing, but hardly to get closer to nakedness, for nakedness implies flesh...
Last evening in Sanders Theatre, John Mason Brown '23 started with the "smong of McCarthyism" and ended with what "man believes." For one and one-half hours between "man" and "McCarthy," the Winthrop Ames Memorial Lecturer delighted his audience with a combination of wit and wisdom applied o "The Dramatic Approach to Reality...
...minor characters, however, are sharper and more consistent. As the "only irregular daughter" of the late Mr. Dudgeon Sr., Patricia Goest is really appealing, and Wayne Maxwell is a fine half-wit brother of "the devil's disciple." There are also several British soldiers marching up and down in front of Darwin Reid Payne's clever set. Exhuding pompous noises, Harvey Widell makes them a fine sergeant. The play's best role, that of General Burgoyne, is given the night's most polished performance by Stanley Jay. Bored with the whole war, Burgoyne says some magnificent things. When Dudgeon asks...