Word: scofield
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...entirely absent-but they must be read between the lines. Hypotenuse in Playwright Greene's triangle is stolid, sluggish Dentist Victor Rhodes (Sir Ralph Richardson), whose single-minded concern for teeth drives his wife Mary (Phyllis Calvert) into a shabby affair with a frustrated bookseller, Clive Root (Paul Scofield). In a scene of Congrevous farce, the lovers are caught by Rhodes, but con their way to freedom. Eventually, Rhodes learns the truth, and Greene suddenly, boldly reveals the decent clod beneath a fool's veneer. Unable to live without his wife, he shamelessly offers to share her with...
Robert Montgomery Presents (Mon. 9:30 p.m., NBC). Frank Scofield in The Second Day of Christmas...
...theater of the 1930s as a story of the triumph of a young revolutionary). The Hamlet was a new production (in English) that had not even been proved in London, boasted but a single starkly simple set, and offered a talented but young (33) and relatively untried Hamlet, Paul Scofield...
...house lights went on at the end of the play, the entire audience rose to its feet and surged down toward the stage. An immense (6 ft. tall) bouquet was sent up to the actors, who took 16 curtain calls, during the last three of which the audience chanted Scofield's name in unison. After the applause had been going on for so long that the actors felt the need to introduce some variety, they applauded the audience for their reception. Said Actor Alec Clunes, who played the king: "All through the performance the audience was very much with...
Unlike the audience. Pravda's Critic Boris Zakhava did not allow himself to be swept away. But he did call the direction "bold and bright,'' and Scofield's Hamlet "clean and honest." Editorially, Pravda called the audience enthusiasm "a demonstration of the friendly feelings of the Soviet people for the English people." The demonstration was carried on nightly at the stage door after the show in a form familiar to the West: hordes of teen-age girls descended on Scofield and mobbed him for autographs...