Word: arounders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...interested in any phase of production have been asked to indicate their preferences at the Pudding's Holyoke Street office any afternoon between Monday and Friday, from 2 to 5 p.m., until April 30. The Pudding reserves the right to shuffle writer and musician teams. Casting will start around November 1. Membership in the Pudding is not a prerequisite for trying...
...piece itself would be difficult to spoil. Kaufman and Hart's lampooning of Alexander Woolcott and a few of his friends is full of full-step jokes, slapstick, and broad humor. The cast that Directors Miller and Seaver have put around Woolley is adequate in all parts, really capable in only a few; but it played last night to the best of its abilities, muffed no lines, and kept the play going when The Man was offstage...
Professional critics have been accustomed to refer to Irving Fine as "a man of promise." His most recent compositions and his varied activities in the University, however, have shown that he is already an all-around musician of highest standing in America. By his music he will be known in the future. An advanced student at Tanglewood last summer commented after hearing one of his works, "I should like to congratulate Mr. Fine for expressing all he has to say through his music...
...where husband Sir William Hamilton was ambassador) into uproar. Emma guzzled champagne and gambled with Nelson's money. Nelson, down by the stern in an alcoholic sea, roared demands for songs in his own praise, and aged, cuckolded Hamilton, merry as a grig, "performed feats of activity, hopping around the room on his backbone, his arms, legs, star and ribbon all flying about...
Harvard University was the scene the other night of a debate on the question, "Resolved, that the American Revolution was a mistake." A couple of young men from Cambridge University, England, argued that it would have been better all around if America had remained under the British crown. A couple of Harvard students in reply insisted that July 4 was worth celebrating. This reminds us of an incident which occurred some years ago on ship-board. It was the Fourth of July and a young Englishman found it most amusing to tell his American acquaintances that "in England we call...