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...unmarred by so much as a fist fight, Price harangued a crowd of 5.000 ebony-to-copper-hued partisans. "P.U.P., all de way," chanted the audience. When a speaker hailed Price as "our Gandhi, our George Washington and our future President," a plump mammy in the crowd cackled: "Dat's right, mon, dat's right." But P.U.P. leaders, soft-pedaling their old independence cry, said that the new majority wants first to cooperate with the governor and show that it is a stable and permanent political force. For a beginning, they wanted to see the government put some...
...world, eh? Godmudder used to say: 'Tek heed he dat stand lest he falleth' . . . Godmudder was a wise woman...
...such thing as action in television. All the actors do is pretend there has been action-they pant and they groan and they tell you how far they have just run. TV seems dedicated to saying everything without words. The actors stand around and grunt and say 'Dats so' or 'Ain't dat right?' This is stupid." Hecht's decision: "I figured there was one thing I could do. I could write wordy, dialogue-type plays: This sort of thing went out of fashion 25 years ago. I'm hoping to bring...
...back a few such famous characters as Lillian ("Madame Queen") Randolph and Elinor ("Ruby") Harriet, and recalled some favorite milestones from their script life: Madame Queen's breach of promise suit against Andy (". . . We was engaged 147 times in one year . . . an' it woulda been more dan dat if we'd been goin' steady"); Andy's first meeting with Kingfish- played by Gosden (Andy: "Say, scusee me for protrudin', stranger, but ain't you got ahold of my watch chain?" Kingfish: "Your watch chain? Well, so I does. How you like dat...
...dere? To Rienzi? Don't do dat, Sam, I'll talk. Just gimme a slug o' whiskey, tha's all. Just one slug...