Word: ado
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Publicity-wise Yankee President Larry MacPhail, who knew better, let the talk grow. He had picked his manager two weeks ago. This week, with great ado, he let the world in on his little secret. Shrewd Stanley ("Bucky") Harris, 49, known in the trade as a gentleman and a base-hit scholar, will run the Yankees...
...Gradually convinced himself . . . that his dramaturgical plan [for the cycle] was faulty"-the cycle should tell of one family, not two-and "without further ado . . . destroyed two of the double-length or four of the plays he had written. . . ." (In his time, O'Neill has ruthlessly scrapped several other plays...
Facing reductions in the size of the student body, of their audiences, and of their till receipts throughout the wartime period, the Harvard Dramatic Club nevertheless put up a brave fight for survival. They produced such plays as "Owen Wingrave," "Much Ado About Nothing," and "The Misanthrope." Now on the docket for spring production is Maxwell Anderson's "Winterset...
...ADO JIMENEZ ROSABAL San Jose, Costa Rica
...performance, which will be staged sometime late in December at Sanders Theatre, will mark the first time since the start of the war that the H.D.C. is producing a play without the Radcliffe Idler. During the war they collaborated successfully on several plays, including "Owen Wingrave," "Much Ado About Nothing," and "Playboy of the Western World...