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...where no disturbance can be." And to his executioner: "I shall say but a short prayer and, when I hold out my hands thus, strike." The ax flashed and Cromwell's will was done-but so anxious was he to make sure, that he later went to the coffin and searched the wound with his fingers...
...their doors, sat in front of their shops reading newspapers. Depressed by the slump in business, the queen of Cholon's call girls took an overdose of sleeping pills as the shortest route to the shades of her ancestors, was escorted to her grave in a red teak coffin by a weeping procession of old customers...
...painters, sculptors, poets and models of Montmartre and Montparnasse gathered for his funeral, and an enormous cortege solemnly followed the hearse to the cemetery. All along the road the same policemen who had arrested the gay and irresponsible Modi with such alarming regularity came to attention and saluted the coffin...
...fact that everybody had to work with only such props as they could find in New Haven or bring along, and with no sets at all. It may be symptomatic of something or other that the most effective single prop used in any of the plays was a coffin which Mount Holyoke brought for its production of Finnegans Wake...
...rate shows like Miss Julie, Finnigans Wake, and Deathwatch set standards of acting and production techniques which the other groups will try to emulate. The Dramat seems to have been happy with the results of the weekend; it has scheduled another festival for next year. Thus Finnegan's symbolic coffin appears not to have been the emblem of the great event after all.A members of the Vassar production staff acts as a solitary guinea pig for the light-testing crews...