Word: ellen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dickens, the Victorian world came face to face with genius in its most overwhelming form, approaching the borders of madness and self-destruction. "No gentleman" was the well-bred Victorian's verdict on Dickens-confirmed when his home broke up because of his passion for Actress Ellen Ternan. But Thackeray was a gentleman-"as polished as a steel mirror and as cold," "a natural swell," a Platonic lover who politely bowed himself out of his passion for a married woman when her husband objected. In public, Thackeray came to represent everything that Dickens derided in the life of high...
High point of the show is a forlorn ballad sung by Lanky Blonde Ellen Hanley about a wan, straight-haired maiden who attends a meeting of an antique music society and trustingly goes home with a base-hearted fellow enthusiast...
...members include Agna Boass of Greycroft House and Sherburn, Biology; Mary E. Costanza of Coggeshall House and Quincy, Philosophy; Rebecca Hoge of Everest House and Wayland, English; Ellen B. Kritzman of McIntire House and Glenhead, N.Y., Biology; Mrs. Dorothy M. Mermin of Cambridge, English; Lynn V. Moorhead of Cabot Hall and Poplar Grove, III., Biochemical Sciences, and Janice D. Rowe of Greycroft House and Woburn, Far Eastern Languages...
...those breezy, mass-aimed, gag-and-garter comedies that now and then run for a year or more, Fair Game boasts a decidedly helpful production. Sam Levene is a deft low-comedy actor, Ellen McRae a fresh and attractive heroine, Robert Webber a likably convincing hero. They endow the show's better scenes with life and laughs, and Playwright Locke has a knack for bright broad lines. But bad hobbles after good, and crude latches onto clever in a shamelessly oversolicitous, never-change-the-subject exploitation of the girl-who-cries-wolf theme. Fair Game not only tosses...
...MARY ELLEN L. Du VALL...