Word: beacons
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...familiar beacon of Harvard Square was promised escape from total black-out when the Donnelly Electric and Neon Company installed an electric eye on their Royal Crown Cola electric sign...
...that name is being produced in a tiny theatre holding at most a hundred people, by a tiny company of hardworking semi-pros, might arouse at most a little sympathetic interest--not enough, however, for a trip into town to look for that theatre at 36 Joy Street (off Beacon Street a block west of the State House.) Only, therefore, the probable truth that "The Old Ladies" is the most gripping play that has appeared on a Boston stage this season can be reasonably considered just cause for an excursion...
...Boston, when the carolers came on Christmas Eve, the great houses on Beacon Hill would-barring unexpected blackout-be alight from top to bottom, with a candle in every window. There would be shiny holly wreaths tied with red ribbon on the doors, milk-white mistletoe berries over the living-room entrance, clusters of bayberry and bittersweet over the stockings on the mantel. Small children in fuzzy pajamas would be led unwillingly to bed, while teen-age brothers & sisters paraded stiffly in first Tuxedos and long dresses, ready to sweep off to Christmas Eve dances...
...dumpy mail boats which ply between Fishguard, Wales and Rosslare, Eire are very well acquainted with Tuskar Rock, some seven miles off the latter port. Tuskar means peat spade, but in the old days Tuskar Rock dug only graves in the water. Now Tuskar Light is a 110-foot beacon visible all the way from Wales...
...title role was unwise. He never had a chance of putting it over completely. His acting is good, he obviously studied Pulham assiduously, but too many champagne and night club parts have branded him as a gay man-about-town and his manner sometimes typifies Park Avenue rather than Beacon Street. Furthermore, though his performance is as near-perfect as it could be under the circumstances, he suffers from the unfortunate handicap of not being a Harvard...