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Word: dunne (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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BECAUSE this Dunster House Drama Society production tends toward the light-hearted and comic event, the two most malevolent characters are evoked sympathetically. Therefore, the members' of Heartbreak House failure to show alarm or despair at the deaths of Mangan, the deceitful businessman, and Billy Dunn, the burglar and ex-pirate, is not credible...

Author: By Peter M. Engel, | Title: Heartbreak Hilarity | 4/27/1979 | See Source »

...emotions and constitute fully-credible characters. Peter Stein captures the essence of the ancient Captain Shotover who drinks "to keep sober" and displays beneath his pachydermatous appearance a tender heart and all the wisdom of the playwright himself. Although Shotover is the ultimate source of chaos, confusing Mazzini Dunn for Billy Dunn, ignoring the arrival of his long-lost daughter Lady Ariadne Utterword and spewing forth random comments as he wanders aimlessly on and off the stage, the Captain is the only one who remains oblivious to the frenzy of Heartbreak House: "I've stood on the bridge...

Author: By Peter M. Engel, | Title: Heartbreak Hilarity | 4/27/1979 | See Source »

Jennifer Notking convincingly portrays Ellie Dunn's emergence from a shy, naive girl into a coy and sophisticated woman who then recants her decision to marry Mangan solely for his money. Instead, she falls for the 88-year-old Shotover, displaying an unexpected maturity and the mysterious allure of a siren...

Author: By Peter M. Engel, | Title: Heartbreak Hilarity | 4/27/1979 | See Source »

Benefit Concert for Boston Archdiocesan Choir School--Works of Vivaldi, Handel and BACS graduates; Boston Archdiocesan Choir, St. Paul Men's Schola, BACS Handbell Choir, Cambridge Festival Orchestra, John Dunn, organ; St. Paul Church, Bow and Arrow...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Weekly What Listings Calendar: April 26- May 2 | 4/26/1979 | See Source »

Members of Quincy House are sponsoring the service. Rev. Peter J. Gomes, minister in Memorial Church, will preside. Other speakers will be Marshall R. Pihl, Quincy House senior tutor; Charles W. Dunn, Quincy House master; and Phyllis F. Markowitz, counselor in the Bureau of Study Counsel, where Stetson was also a counselor before his death...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Memorial Service Scheduled Today For Joe Stetson | 4/19/1979 | See Source »

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