Word: basuto
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...were wise in keeping almost all the play's lines, as well as the story, intact. Lachie, who is convincingly and warmly played by Richard Todd, enters the hospital without knowing exactly what is wrong with him. The men in his ward--Digger, Kiwi, Tommy, Yank, and Blossom, the Basuto--all know he is doomed, and do their best to make things easy...
...doting treatment of a popularity contest winner. What he does not know, and what his wardmates do know, is that he has only a few weeks to live. Hotly spurned and colorfully insulted, his fellow patients- an American, an Australian, a New Zealander, an Englishman and an African Basuto-find their sympathy giving way to acute dislike...