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...politics, came out flatly for confederation. He proposed that the convention send a delegation to Ottawa at once to ask for terms. It was just like old times. Delegate Kenneth Brown, president of the Fishermen's Protective Union, jumped to his feet, roared his opposition with such vigor that he collapsed and had to be carried out. When just about every delegate had had his say, the convention voted, rejected the confederation motion...
...Peter Temple 1G, directed and played King Henry, with Mendy Weisgal '45 as Justice Shallow, David Hersey '48 as Sir John Falstaff, Ted Allegretti '47 as Prince Hal, and Mrs. Marty G. B. Mories as Mistress Quickly. While physically anomalous in the role of Falstaff, Hersey performed with a vigor and understanding that garnered as many laughs as a sparsely-filled auditorium could offer. Weisgal displayed versatility in doubling as Shallow and the Archbishop. Mrs. Mories, having done time on professional boards, played an energetic Mistress Quickly with an occasionally inconsistent Cockney accent...
Little Caesar (1930) and Public Enemy (1931), greatly admired by Museum officials for the "idiomatic vigor of their dialogue and their accurate realization of a period," have been withdrawn by the owners (Warner) from Film Library archives. The Museum can't think of any reason why, except "some new, strange reticence on the part of Warner Bros...
...Aviv, on the other hand, is like a growing child that is bursting his breeches. All the intensity and vigor that symbolize the new Palestine are found in Tel Aviv. It is the throbbing pulse, cultural and commercial, social and political of the Yishuv, or Jewish Community in Palestine. They don't call it Palestine in Tel Aviv: It's "Ereta Visrael," the Land of Israel, or more simply. Arets, the Land...
...unexpected humor, unfaltering analytical acuity, a beautifully keen emotional sensibility and such steely, abundant natural vigor as to afford that extra half-ounce of energy which compels immediate assent. . . . 'Unfaltering! Unflagging!'-these are the epithets that his performance most obviously requires. Other actors are in this or that phase of Lear's progress from worldly to spiritual dominion the peers of Mr. Olivier, but no actor that we can recall has matched the creative stamina which enables Mr. Olivier to rise equal to the demands of every phase...