Word: acted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Most evenings Tenor Herb Surface turns up at Manhattan's Mark Hellinger Theater at 8, slips into baggy trousers, tweed jacket and cap, and steps onto the stage as a member of the Cockney quartet which helps ring down the curtain on My Fair Lady's first act: "All I want is a room somewhere, far away from the cold night air . . ." But one day last week, as he has for many weeks, Tenor Surface got to Times Square early. At 5:30 he joined other members of the My Fair Lady chorus in a studio above Lindy...
Pastor Guenter Rutenborn, who is somewhere in East Germany, wrote The Sign of Jonah immediately after the war, for a Germany that was standing shocked and beaten in the rubble of the Third Reich. The one-act play was intended only for a church group, but so intimately did it speak to the anguish and anger of the time that Jonah ran for more than a thousand performances on a professional West Berlin stage and on the road. Slight in size, it nevertheless bites off a big chunk of cosmos, compressing into an hour-long performance a range that includes...
...some raffish first-act comedy, and very fitfully thereafter, when Wendy Hiller and Franchot Tone give urgency to O'Neill's clouded scenes, or give a face to his sense of lostness, A Moon stirs to life. But mostly it lies dead; and something a little too decent in everyone's basic motives makes A Moon soft as well as enfeebled. There is no tumble and toss of sick, bitter, angry, thwarted, even petrified emotions. Everywhere there is a sense of O'Neill's honest compassion, but nowhere is there anything incandescently imagined or inextinguishably...
...utterly indefensible act," cried Virginia's conservative Democrat Harry F. Byrd, whose Finance Committee quickly began hearings on his bill to limit all federal fast-amortization plans to defense, AEC and research projects. "A shocking political theft," added Oregon's liberal Democrat Wayne Morse, whose bill calling for a public power dam at Hells Canyon was defeated in Congress last July 51 to 41. It was promptly reported out of the Senate Interior Committee by Montana's Democratic Chairman James E. Murray as "our answer to the Administration's action...
Often Datini sat up day and night, hardly pausing to eat or sleep, tirelessly writing reprimands to his partners, agents and factors throughout Europe, begging them to act prudently, to "trust no man." Always, just as today, the last straw came in the form of taxation: "I shall see torn from me in my old age all that God has lent me . . . I have reached such a point that methinks, if a man stabbed me, no blood would issue forth...