Word: yurka
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...appeal than all the rest of the family put together. Within one year (intermission) she seduces the manservant, the son and the master of the house. And she does these things in the big parlor hall that gives on every room in the house. The ladies wax wroth. Blanche Yurka as the mistress of the household, becomes, at times, a tragic figure, notably at the end of Act II when she prays to the Virgin for strength to keep her Spanish down. A happy ending and retribution follow the return of the gipsy man with the whip for his "woman...
...devious fortunes of a band of Romanies from the break-up of their winter camp in New Hampshire to their arrival at a Vermont council ground in the autumn. In particular, it follows the wooing of pantherlike young Panna, the chief's daughter, by Milanko, the tumbler, and Yurka, the half-giorgio* fiddler; and reflects the changing of gypsy ways from mooching along in bright-painted horse-vans to flitting over the country in shiny automobiles. Whether or not some of the language is highflown-and whether or not gypsies ever caught chickens by dragging past a farmyard...
April 13--"The Wild Duck" at the Repertory. Second return engagement of Ibsen's piece. Ruth Taylor takes Blanche Yurka's place...
...Theatre Guild has staged this weird adventure with all the cunning resources at its command. Alfred Lunt, Lynn Fontanne, Blanche Yurka, George Gaul, Helen Westley, Dwight Frye, Albert Bruning and other notables head an apparently endless cast. Acting, setting and direction are superb. Goat Song can be set down as an inspired attempt to cage within the worldly walls of the theatre an intangible and hopelessly unanswerable abstraction...
Repertory--"The Wild Duck", with Blanche Yurka...