Word: rosalind
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...issue's one redeeming story is "As Who Likes It?," a moderately funny parody on Shakespeare's comedy. Its humor comes from a take-off on the supposedly unconvincing disguises of Rosalind in "As You Like It"; in this case, the writer gets some humor out of having both lovers in disguises that fool nobody in the east but themselves. But the plot here too lacks effort and the promise of a reasonably funny climax is never realized. The parody on Kittredge and Coleridge footnotes comes off very well indeed...
Hallmark Playhouse (Thurs. 10 p.m., CBS). My Sister Eileen, with Rosalind Russell...
...through the ages has only been a satisfying myth. A girl is left upon her wiles. Remembering the admonition of "that loveable old cynic" Dorothy Parker about "girls who wear glasses," many a Cliffedweller foregoes the wisdom of Portia to remain an unlearned, loveable Juliet. Happily, the star of Rosalind, who succeeded in combining both wit and grace, seems to be in its ascendancy over Garden Street...
With Katharine Hepburn as Rosalind, As You Like It is now tried again, and for a while does nicely. Its gaily dressed figures, prettily painted landscapes and well-sung songs give it rather the graceful air of a masque. The quickly shifting scenes at the start give it movement. But once it enters the Forest of Arden, where the scenery stays put and the story refuses to, the charm wears ever more thin. All the world loves a lover, but not everybody loves eight in one play-particularly when they include Audrey and Touchstone and Phebe and Silvius with their...
...beguiling Rosalind can do much to offset, if never quite obliterate, all this. Actress Hepburn's Rosalind reflects too much the player and too little the part. She seems the very best sort of performer -talented, cultured and good-looking-in college dramatics; she plays the whole thing more as a romp than a love story, and does beautifully by the blank verse while skating right over the poetry. William Prince makes a pleasantly lovesick Orlando, Ernest Thesiger a relentlessly melancholy Jaques...