Word: zestful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Perhaps the production at the Copley doesn't have the slickness of the Tremont Street plays, but once it gets started it has plenty of zest, and backed by the fine Kaufman-Ferber script, it's a pretty good show...
...town like Yankee Doodle. He has given Too Many Girls the genuine youthfulness of such Abbott comedies as Brother Rat and What a Life, and for the same reason: because it is full of natural, exuberant young people. He has given it a headlong pace, a slam-bang zest and zip. Too Many Girls is in no one respect outstanding, but it doesn't need to be: it is simply one of those right-as-rain shows that don't stall at the start, break down in the middle, or run out of gas before...
...lagged and might have been quickened up to heighten the suspense. Frank Silveram, who, by necessity of script, practically put on a one-man show, got plenty of oomph into the part, though occasionally overacting it. The real laurels go to Edwin Pettet who gave the part of Smithers zest that it has seldom had before...
...morale. She takes a stand behind the counter of a shooting gallery, goes gunning for a big, silent ranch hand (Robert Young), misses his heart with her first try. Happily pursuing him out on the range, Maisie is resourcefully wrangling her man with a healthy woman's zest when into the picture pops an incompatible couple from the East, laden with a love triangle and a lot of other well-worn cinema luggage. What goes on thenceforth is not in Maisie's line...
...have aimed at a simplicity of interpretation; at presenting a Hamlet who is not an abnormal neurotic, but a young man, full of the zest for life, but ultra-sensitive to the shocks and disillusionments, caught in a particularly horrible and brutal set of circumstances." Thus the director of Maurice Evans' complete "Hamlet" has summarized her work; and thus, simply and directly, Miss Webster has expressed both the strength and the weakness of the justly celebrated production...