Word: briens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Class of 1950--President--Jane Rainie, Janet Stewart, Lucia Toscano; Vice-President--Lucia Cate, Anne Rodriguez, Barbara Tuttle; Secretary--Nina Emerson, Sue Eastabrooks, Hope Ingersoll; Treasurer--Katharine Chase, Pat Hartford, Marjorie Otten; Council Representative--Sue Evans, Carol Frasor, Deirdre O'Brien, Barbara Samuel, Enid Trinkle...
Programs are exchanged with WHRV through an open "telephone-line." At present Radio Radcliffe sends three music listening hours to the Network in return for special broadcasts, half-hour shows, and Charles O'Brien's "Ballad Corner." As the most recent angle the two stations are even exchanging announcers: Nancy Buhrer '49 does the Network's Monday night "Comin' On" program, and William Clark '49 takes over Radio Radcliffe's Thursday night "Swing Out" (popular music) show...
This time the four hoopskirted March girls are played by blonde June Allyson (Jo) in a red wig, brunette Elizabeth Taylor (Amy) in a blonde wig, Janet Leigh (Meg), and Margaret O'Brien (Beth). Though the faces have changed, the girlish flutter and flummery are still the same. Curled up in her cluttered Concord attic, tousle-headed Jo still writes, and weeps over her blood & thunder fiction. The romantic Meg still falls romantically in love, marries and has twins. Featherbrained Amy, as self-centered as ever and still suffering from the "degradations" of well-bred poverty, succeeds in catching...
...more the faded sentiments and the tintyped situations. Another is June Allyson's playing of tomboy Jo. She has a refreshing breeziness and bounce which make the old tale believable and now & then lift it right out of its tatted frame. Other notable performances are Margaret O'Brien's delicate, peaked portrayal of ailing Beth, and the supporting work of veterans Mary Astor (Marmee), the late Sir C. Aubrey Smith and Lucille Watson. The whole package is so richly wrapped in romantic period sets and costumes that the final shot is unnecessary: a pastel, picture-postcard rainbow...
Also named to executive posts for the year are Sylvia Rice '50, of Barnard Hall and Millbury, vice-president; Jennifer Post '51, of Barnard Hall and Haverford, Pennsylvania, secretary; Jean O'Brien '51, of Belmont, treasurer; and Elizabeth Tucker '52, of Barnard Hall and West Hartford, Connecticut, sophomore representative...