Word: drunks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...appearance gives the part a freshness which, we four, was not present in the original script. And Thomas Ratcliffe, as a crusty man of affairs, and then a model barrister, showed a talent out of proportion to the minor parts in which he was cast. John Cromwell, as "the Drunk Swell" gives a most capable performance...
...been that no war is justified and that the value of a human life is far greater than that of any principle over which a war could be waged. The men who have espoused this view, however, have been young men with future years of possible happiness ahead, youths drunk with the joy of living. The old men, on the other hand, who have lived the greater portion of their lives have sat quietly by and looked on, amused perhaps. For them living for the sake of living has lost its value and only because of loyalties to some ideals...
...comedy is well supported by the cast. Laurette Bullivant as the jilted flancee produces an excellent burlesque of Ophelia, "Whiskey, that's for forgetfulness!" Grayce Hampton, the maid who has lived with the family so long that she now runs it, gestures agreeably the more so when she is drunk. Miss Frederick, her majesty, handles her role with great sophistication and taste, and with scarcely a single let-down. The other support is adequate...
...chosen for pronunciation by non-Russian tongues. Aside from the motto "Ahead To World's Revolution" inscribed in the crew's game room (equipped with piano and radio) she took every precaution not to offend U. S. sensibilities. Her crew was forbidden to get drunk ashore, and they kicked down the gangplank a loud-mouthed U. S. Red who tried to turn their polite arrival into a noisy Red rally...
...soon as the play was chosen the Harvard and Radcliffe actors who had been retained Monday were assigned to the different roles. All the parts are now filled with the exception of a few minor bits. The cast follows: John, Allan L. Steinberg '35;--Drunk Swell, John Cromwell '36; Leonard the Learned, Arthur Szathmary '37; Bernard the Brave, Richard C. Sullivan '35; Percy the Prosperous, Robert L. McKee '37; Egbert the Eccentric, Paul Killiam, Jr. '37; Lewis the Loving, James W. Tower '35; Albert the Acquisitive, John Michael '35; Herold the Helpful, Whitney M. Cook '36; Inebriated Philosophers. Stephen Greene...