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David Rounds brings plenty of verve to the role of Lucio, the quick-witted, cynical, slanderous libertine who bridges the gap between the aristocracy and the rabble. Wyman Pendleton imbues the aging counselor Escalus with warmth. And Alvah Stanley, with axe, rope and chains, is properly intimidating as the executioner Abhorson--a unique name that Shakespeare fashioned, in the manner of the pivot-word so common in Japanese poetry, by fusing 'abhor' and 'whoreson...
When the Hollywood Ten were exorcised from the film industry, Chaplin offered his voice to the choir of protest. Two years later, one of the ten, Alvah Bessie, called on Chaplin begging for a writing assignment. How about a movie on Don Quixote, Bessie spitballed, with you as Sancho Panza and Walter Huston as Don? "They'd crucify me," Chaplin told him crisply and offered a farewell handshake. When Bessie morosely withdrew, he found a folded hundred-dollar bill in his palm...
...wishing book," and it was usually tattered and dog-eared by the time somebody punched a hole in it and hung it in the family privy. When this particular catalogue appeared, the firm of Sears Roebuck and Co.-founded by Richard W. Sears, a former railroad-station agent, and Alvah Roebuck, a watch repairman -was four years old and prospering...
...Among them: last winter's The Symbol, by Alvah Bessie, a novel based on the life of Marilyn Monroe...
Holworthy, while not doing so well in cross country, took the freshman touch football championship by winning ten straight games. The team, paced by Alvah Crocker and Bob Cleary, averaged 49.9 points per game, and limited the opposition to a scant ten point average. On the basis of this record, Holworthy is in second position in the intramural race...