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...role of Christopher Isherwood, Charles Cooper declaims early in the play: "I am a camera." This is very possible, for Mr. Cooper is certainly not an actor. I don't know where the producers found him--perhaps in a road company of Blossom Time--but in any case, their choice is atrocious. Alternating between leaden stolidity and an eagerness which parodies the mannerisms of Julie Harris, his performance is a long dull thud from beginning to end. In fact, with Mr. Cooper tossing off his lines with the delicacy of a shot-putter, his soliloquies offer the most painful moments...
When Grand left Appomattox in '65 he thought that the North had won the war. And, indeed, the South was down in supposed defeat. But with true fighting spirit the sons of the Magnolia blossom rose to win the greatest fight of all: the Battle of Hollywood...
...even if it must take some loss, the Coop should concentrate on student service rather than piling up profits. No one can blame them for being understocked when courses blossom with unexpected popularity, but too many students in too many courses have had to wait for reorders to excuse the Coop's poor foresight...
...When the rest of us were still getting kicked in the shins by boys," recalls Mrs. Eileen Archibold, a girlhood friend, "one of them gave Mamie a snakeskin. It was a real honor." Mamie made regular Saturday streetcar pilgrimages to the Orpheum Theater to drink in vaudeville performances by Blossom Seeley, De Wolf Hopper, Eva Tanguay, Harry Lauder and other such glamorous figures. She "dressed up" in adult finery at every opportunity. Boys swarmed around the Doud house, and Mamie fed 'them cookies and Welch's grape juice, and allowed them to play at a pool table...
...undermined her health. Her right side paralyzed by Parkinson's disease, Sister Kenny went back to Queensland, longing for a last look at the jacaranda trees in bloom around her home in Toowoomba. There, this week, she died, aged 66. She had lived to see her jacarandas blossom and to see her life work bearing fruit around the world...