Word: rae
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...pilot misjudgment. To prevent such unpleasant incidents, the Federal Aviation Agency thoroughly tested five visual-approach aids, and it has finally recommended one that was developed by Britain's Royal Aircraft Establishment. Last week New York's International Airport offered runways to be equipped with the RAE system so that pilots can try it out for themselves...
Most of the other actors are similarly inadequate. Mitchell Agruss, as Theseus, handles some of Shakespeare's most exquisite poetry as if it were prose; Rae Allen (Hippolyta) cannot shape a long speech so as to maintain any interest at all; three of the four young Athenians are incompetently portrayed, with only Mariette Hartley, as Helena, rising above mediocrity. Titania, Oberon, and most of their minions were neither human nor supernatural, and failed completely to blend the two in the way that the play requires. Some child-fairies, costumed in what appeared to be their pajamas, were revolting...
...truly tragic aspect of this play; but one cannot call Antony a tragedy about Enobarbus as one can call Julius Caesar a tragedy about Brutus. Donald Davis' traversal of Enobarbus' famous Barge narration is not up to par, but his later scenes of repentance and death are powerful acting Rae Allen (Charmian), Will Geer (Agrippa), Claude Woolman (Menas), and Richard Waring (Sooth-sayer) are commendable in smaller parts; but Patrick Hires' cracking falset-to as the eunuch Mardian is a miscalculation...
William Hickey and Clifton James make a fine Laurel & Hardy team out of Trinculo and Stephano. Anne Fielding. Rae Allen, and Sada Thompson look pretty and sing well (particularly Miss Allen) as the goddesses Iris, Ceres, and Juno in the brief but beautiful Jonsonian masque arranged by Prospero. Lee Hoiby's incidental music is admirable, though his songs lack distinction. Robert Fletcher's set and costume designs and Tharon Musser's lighting are suitable...