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...love with Goat. On a yacht off the island, from which the stage can be seen, the Minister for Public Instruction, the Governor's political rival, is also waiting for the play to be over. When Mr. Goat, as Lear, comes on bearing Maria as the dead Cordelia, it is obvious that Maria is indeed dead; the Governor has killed her. At the Minister's signal, his crew fire a rocket broadside which kills the Governor, Mr. Goat,and almost everyone on the island...
Theater, the old hook was sharpened for the first time in a century. With an apologetic epilogue to appease a generation of Bardolators, the Oxford University Players took a chance on Tate's happy Lear. Instead of a cruel death by hanging, Heroine Cordelia eventually got her man (Edgar) and a fatherly blessing from a mentally restored Lear. Risking all, the Oxford undergraduates even wore the ruffled costumes of Garrick's day, which gave their stage movements a look of mincing foppishness...
Drummers' Stock. In Atlanta, the Cordelia Hosiery Shop displayed 300 pairs of sheer black nylons as customer bait, within 48 hours sold them all to Salvation Army lassies in town for a convention...
...Died. Cordelia Howard Macdonald, 93, the original "Little Eva" of Uncle Tom's Cabin; in Belmont, Mass. Aged four, she played in the first dramatization of the novel, performed at the Troy Museum in Troy...
Having seen to the last detail of their preparations for a gala performance of Uncle Tom's Cabin in the Civic Theatre, officials of the Boston Emergency Relief Administration rode out to the Belmont home of Mrs. Cordelia Howard MacDonald. Mrs. MacDonald, now 86 was the original "Little Eva." At the age 14 in her father's theatrical troupe, she scrambled across the ice floes on a stage at Troy, N. Y., ascended to heaven on a telegraph wire. All her life Mrs. MacDonald has been sitting sweetly through performances of Uncle Tom's Cabin. When...