Word: drabs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...felt I had to quit, and do something about the stage." But how to begin? He knew nobody in the theater. He called his favorite actor, John Gielgud, who listened sympathetically and sent him to study with Actress Martita Hunt. After twelve sessions with the drab young man, she sadly shook her head. "You'll never make an actor, Mr. Guinness...
...chorus sings with gusto, the band is stirring, and the dancers suffer only from the limitations of the stage. Set designer John King and his staff, however, have shown a great deal of imagination in turning the drab and inadequate Winthrop dining hall into a flexible stage...
...Foods, who one day, tired of it all, throws up his job. He goes home to Connecticut with no future plans beyond Do-It-Yourselfing in a chair and making love to his wife (Martha Scott) in the daytime. He also tries his hand at baking brownies, urges a drab, neglected neighbor's wife to turn slinky, encourages a job-weary laundryman to rebel, gets a lady writer to turn soulful. When the boss (amusingly played by John McGiver) comes after him. he agrees to go back to work, but quickly quits again...
...line with Owen, McVey, and Gillie should provide both. What Gillie lacks in size, he more than makes up for in hustle and quick reflexes around the cage. His alert play against B.U. was one of the few bright spots for the Crimson in what was otherwise a very drab evening. Vietze should be effective at defense since he has always been one of the hardest checking linemen on the team. He has a good enough shot to be a scoring threat from the blue line...
Romance, therefore, stays in the cocktail lounge for the most part. Rather one sees sordid slums, drab barracks in the oil fields, or one senses an incipient brutality at times, and a certain fatalism in the people mixed with an unquenchable joie de vivre...