Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wealthy Phyllis Briskin while both were students at the University of Wisconsin, fast enough to be set up in a comfortable Cambridge apartment when he transferred to Harvard. After graduating cum laude (history and government) in 1942, Susskind served a tour in the Navy before he began running in earnest. Work as a movie pressagent, then as an actors' agent, taught him his stride. But he began to move out in front when he joined his friend Alfred,Levy, also an actors' agent, formed Talent Associates and began to package television shows...
...wine." "That must have been awful." "Yes." A honeymoon breaks the ice, but the relationship refreezes when the marchioness discovers that her marquis keeps a woman on the side, and maintains any number of "little 5-to-7" friendships. From this point the comedy evolves into an earnest lecture, delivered by the marquis' uncle (Maurice Chevalier), on the merits of marriage in the Gallic manner. The French, according to this movie, understand these things better. Perhaps, but they certainly understand these things well enough not to lecture people about them...
Actually, only three plays have been produced so far, Six Characters in Search of an Author, The Importance of Being Earnest, and The Power and the Glory...
...group has performed The Importance of Being Earnest, Six Characters in Search of an Author, and The Power and the Glory...
Arthur Miller is one of our leading contrivers of theatrical explosion, and the trial scene of his Crucible blows up with a thoroughly characteristic, thoroughly effective blast. The rest of his account of certain diabolic activities in Massachusetts is uneven but interesting; Mr. Miller's utter, earnest conviction flames forth from every line of it. The performance it receives at the Charles Playhouse is incompletely authoritative (many of the players, for one thing, are badly in need of diction lessons), but still worth a visit...