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...Miss Gibson." wrote Tennis Great Alice Marble angrily in American Lawn Tennis, "is over a cunningly wrought barrel, and I can only hope to loosen a few of its staves with one lone opinion. I think it's time we faced a few facts. If tennis is a game for ladies and gentlemen, it's also time we acted a little more like gentlepeople and less like sanctimonious hypocrites...
...Novak's vacuous eyes, her custard-bowl face: what Harry Cohn hath wrought! C. W. NELSON...
...seems almost as effective in recording as it did on the stage (TIME, Nov. 5). The libretto, in clearest English, is thorny with barbed wit, and the music is alternately exuberant and shadowed with the gentle melancholy the poet-hero feels as he slowly dies, surrounded by "the pain-wrought children of my fancy...
...except within himself) does not start at once. Iago's scheme has a long incubation period, which we in the audience watch with suspense until it bursts out and sweeps us along with it. Now this incubation is hidden from the others on stage; so Shakespeare skilfully wrought a preliminary though related conflict between Othello and his father-in-law Brabantio...
...been left far behind. But Hyman is careful to adjust to the big time scale of this process, so that the proper prolonged Beethovenian crescendo results. For, contrary to the popular conception, Othello is not by nature disposed toward jealousy: he is "one not easily jealous, but being wrought perplex'd in the extreme." He says of his wife, for example, "I'll tear her all to pieces." Most actors would here face the balcony and bellow their guts out. But Hyman, realizing that at this point in the drama Iago has not yet fully drawn out Othello's latent...