Word: carolers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...evening on Joy Street. Catherine Whitfield, as the chatterboxy but clever Penny, cops the laurels. Her portrayal of an intelligent woman acting dumb is convincing where it could easily be fatiguing. The part of the other woman in her husband's life was assigned to pert and pretty Carol Wheeler, whose relaxed competence belies the alleged nervousness of amateur actresses. Helen Sanderson, as another other woman, trips several times in the first act, but recovers her poise before the damage becomes irreparable. The men are weak spots in the performance, except for John Rand '43, whose three-minute...
From deck chairs and other flotsam to which they clung, 18 people collected on a life raft. Four were children: Carol and Richard Shaw, whose mother and sister were drowned and whose father had vanished, and Mary and Robert Bell, whose missionary mother was rescued with them. Also dragged out of the sea was the torpedoed merchantman's skipper, 86-year-old Benjamin Bogdan of Brooklyn. Crowded on the raft, the 18 floated on the vast ellipse of the Caribbean. The sun beat down...
This was the partially told story which censors released last week from Bridgetown, Barbados, B.W.I., where the exhausted survivors were recovering. There were few details given, but officials did pass the statement of one survivor, who gratefully recalled the courage of seven-year-old Carol Shaw and Brother Richard, of Mary and Robert Bell. Said he: "They kept us going...
...Moon), collector and arranger of spirituals, onetime musical director for Oscar Hammerstein, now (at 69) a minor actor in the revival of Gershwin's Porgy and Bess. The Johnson brothers thought little of their song after finishing it, but Jacksonville children continued to carol it, passed it on to other Negro schools. Since then it has sold half a million copies, exists also on countless thousands of typewritten pages pasted in the backs of hymnals and school songbooks. It is a standard selection, especially popular as a quartet number, in Negro colleges, has also spread to white groups...
John Rand '43 is an adequate juvenile lead opposite Carol Wheeler, a young lady with charm enough to make Harvard forget Mary Barthlemess...