Word: asked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...John Gabriel Borkman" is the third of the three plays to be offered by the newly formed American Repertory Theater during its Boston run. Although the A. R. T. was organized to bring to the American stage plays which otherwise might not reach the boards, one id tempted to ask, as with their production of "Henry VIII," why this particular play was chosen for revival. For aside from its value as a specimen of Ibsen's development as a playwright, "John Gabriel Borkman" is a sodden and scarcely believable play...
...afraid to ask for anything you want," they were told at the hotel, "even if it is bird's milk." Later, the travelers were taken to call on the Patriarch. There they met Archdeacon Gregori Antonenko and others of the Patriarch's entourage, went to see a nearby church which was functioning. Said Father Sergei: "There are some 34 churches now in Moscow, filled to capacity every Sunday. Young people, old people, everybody comes. But somehow Moscow is a crude village. All the time I was there I didn't see a single intelligent face...
...series of long legal forms which notify him that an Arlington, Va., office-seeker thinks him a wanton defamer of decent people's character, and has filed suit to that effect with the Supreme Court. And not infrequently students in certain of his courses come to Emerson 200 to ask almost literally whether he knows "where the Hell their course is heading...
Blue Skies (Paramount) has Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire and a couple of dozen old & new Irving Berlin melodies. Millions of moviegoers, happily fighting their way to the box office, will ask nothing more of this $3 million Technicolored exhibition of Old Masters...
Pain & Joy. In Brooklyn, it was an agonizing week. On the steps of Borough Hall, the Rev. Benney S. C. Benson knelt and intoned: "Oh Lord, their chances don't look so good right now, but everyone is praying for the Bums to win. We ask you not to give . . . St. Louis any better break than you give us. . . ." That afternoon Leo ("The Lip") Durocher used eight Dodger pitchers-a league record-in an unsuccessful attempt to beat the Phillies. Next day, star Outfielder Pete Reiser broke a leg sliding into base, while 32,000 Flatbush faithfuls groaned...