Word: corcorans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Joan Dexter is far too pretty and slim to play the role of decaying middle-aged Buttercup. To make up for this faulty casting she gives the part an interpretation that is spirited and novel, if incorrect. Robert Peters as Captain Corcoran, Roger Murphy as Dick Deadeye, and David Shapiro as Sir Joseph Porter, and all far better than average amateur performers. Nancy Ryan's Cousin Hebe is one of the finest that I have ever seen...
...Captain Corcoran will tread the stage once again when Winthrop House presents "H.M.S. Pinafore," its second annual Gilbert and Sullivan production in the Junior common room at 8:30 p.m. tonight and tomorrow night...
Washington's Corcoran Gallery, which prides itself on showing the best in modern American art, housed a newcomer last week. The debutant, a shy, gentle man with a Pinocchio-sized nose, was the Washington Post's cartoonist, Herbert Lawrence Block, 40. He had won a Pulitzer Prize (1942), but he'd never seen anything like this. Eyeing the 194 cartoons, all signed with the economy-size pen name (Herblock), one dowager gushed to Block: "There's a complete timelessness about your cartoons. They'll last, I think, for at least ten years...
This month, Herblock will add another laurel to his balding pate when the National Gallery of Art's Rosenwald Collection buys several cartoons from his Corcoran show. He will thus become the first U.S. living cartoonist in the Rosenwald group of prints and etchings. The only other: Britain's David Low (TIME...
...Moods. At the Corcoran opening, the gallery favorite was a Taft-faced cat (see cut) that had just swallowed an Administration canary. One runner-up: an unhappy Republican elephant consulting a psychiatrist because of a feeling that he is "not wanted." In more bitter mood, e.g., challenging the Un-American Activities Committee's qualifications for purging textbooks ("Now to find somebody that can read"), Herblock sometimes has the deadly point of a poisoned dart...