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...Dumbwaiter and The Collection, by Harold Pinter. These two one-acters combine the comedy and menace of England's most powerfully provocative playwright. Alan Schneider's direction of a splendid cast seismographically records volcanic shifts of meaning...
Austria's Romy Schneider wants to be a jade too. She is only 24. She has a neat little nose, powder-blue eyes, and a pixy grin. She is real real cute. "God, I hate that word," she says. For years, she was repeatedly cast in German films more or less as Shirley Tempelhof, the cardboard princess. Determinedly, she has changed all that. Last week in London, dressed in tights and high black stockings, she began work in Carl Foreman's The Victors as a cabaret violinist turned whore, playfully kicking up her heels and pulling her tights...
Gaiety & Repudiation. To reach this moment, she has had to shed more than the memory of her early career. She was born in Vienna before World War II, when the city was still trying to be gay. Her mother, Magda Schneider, was a weepy, waltzy actress who was the Jeanette MacDonald of prewar Austria. Her father, Wolf Albach-Retty, was a celebrated actor, and is still a staple of the Vienna Volkstheater. Now divorced, the couple in those days had a retreat at Berchtesgaden, where Romy (a contraction of Rose-Marie) was raised by grandparents. There she playacted alone before...
...patience for schooled techniques. "What is the Method?" she says. "I don't know what it is. Acting is acting. You know what to do. My mother always quoted a director who said, 'Damn it, don't think, act!' " But in spite of herself, Romy Schneider thinks a great deal about her work, particularly about how difficult it is "to be a real human being in life" as well as on the stage. "Yes," she finishes with an ambivalent grin, "to make love well is hardest...
...film versions of Long Day's Journey; but there was a weak sister--or, I should say, brother--in the cast of the former, and a weak mother and brother in the latter. Virginia Woolf, however, currently boasts a quartet that is utterly flawless; and their performance (under Alan Schneider's inspiring career as the history professor who, once thought direction), individually and corporately, is bound to be talked about for decades...