Consequently, the spotlight is hogged by Alexander, who shimmies across the floor, droops like a lovelorn dandy and gazes soulfully at the front row, where Salome and her friends are gazing back.
A superb screenplay, co-written by Odets, was the launchpad for Alexander Mackendrick's vividly achieved portrait of obsession and betrayal.
Alexander made clear the Liberal Democrats' deep unease at the prime minister's plan when he warned of the dangers posed by those who "put anti-European ideology ahead of our national interest".
Labour's Douglas Alexander, the shadow foreign secretary, talks "a lot of sense on Europe", he said.
Gwyneth Paltrow's coming … she's going to see my bits!!! Michelle Olley's performance diary The late British fashion designer Alexander McQueen induced writer Michelle Olley to lie naked in a glass box in 2001 as the coup de theatre of a fashion show.
But Danny Alexander, the Treasury chief secretary, was less insouciant saying " Obviously, if something has caused offence, obviously that was not right.
It's not quite the slight faced by the younger Grieve, but it rings a bell.
An unlikely coalition of sworn enemies came to a juddering and messy end as the UK parties bickered Alexander says it was important to change stance because a definitive no was the natural conclusion of further analysis by the Treasury.
Darling and Alexander were adamant that, for all their fears, they made the right decision on the currency.
But he said of the interventions by the chancellor, his Treasury deputy and the shadow chancellor: "Then in came Osborne, Alexander and Balls to say no way, never, ever we will not allow this, Scotland cannot have the pound.
"Then Danny Alexander drops in in his capacity of secretary of state for Scotland and somewhere between the two meetings, the impression is given that they want to go further than the existing Scotland Act".
