Word: acted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Position Papers. The Senate made it very clear, in the U.N. Participation Act of 1945, that the nation's U.N. delegate is not supposed to decide questions of policy. The U.S. delegation, says the law, "shall, at all times, act in accordance with the instructions of the President, transmitted by the Secretary of State...
...must answer questions. When the picture is guessed, e.g., the face of Napoleon, the winner is rewarded at a base-pay scale of $20 per unconnected dots. This may soar with such refinements as Double Dotto, Triple Dotto and Double Double Dotto. Home players can get in on the act by giving their answers via telephone...
...still recalls being hauled at night out of the coal bin where she slept and made to warble sentimental favorites for her drunken father. Having mastered the techniques of standing on her head and walking a tightrope, Lenya enrolled at the Stadttheater in Zurich, worked up a dance act and moved on to Berlin. There she played the subway circuit, usually in Shakespeare. The year was inflation-ridden 1923; her weekly salary was 3 billion marks ($5). After she married Weill and became a star in Germany, U.S. Composer-Critic Virgil Thomson wrote: "She is beautiful...
...stage debut. Tackling the role in which Paul Douglas scored on Broadway, he proves that he can do more than fire questions at TV contestants in isolation booths. In fact, he gives a smooth, consistent and convincing performance. His only serious lapse is near the close of the first act, where he has a heart-to-heart talk with his son and reminisces about his dead wife. This is hard to pull off, but the writing is so fine that it still emerges as one of the two most memorable scenes in the play. The other scene occurs later when...
Jean-Paul Sartre's one-act play No Exit will be the next production of the Harvard Summer Theatre Group, next week on Aug. 14, 15, and 16, at 8:30 p.m. in the Union...