Word: expectation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This Old Vic Twelfth Night could hardly be brighter. To expect the plot to sprint, the jokes to put on new leaves, the performing never to be mannered or coy would be unreasonable. Illyria still keeps its Old World tempo, and the plot its tollgates. But the poetry dances in and out of the prankishness, the air is brushed with light, the carousing invokes no shudders and provides some laughs. Richard Wordsworth's Malvolio is grandly absurd in the letter scene, and in his yellow stockings and cross garters, really funny. Jane Downs's Olivia, Judi Dench...
...varsity swimming team should have no difficulty defeating a perennially weak M.I.T. squad in the first home meet at 8 p.m. in the I.A.B. pool tonight. Acting coach Bill Brooks does not expect a repeat of last year's perfect 72-8 score, since the Engineers are undefeated in this season's three outings...
...bring the satellite back to earth at a desired place and time, designers expect to employ a retrorocket, which will be fired to reduce its speed at the chosen moment and spot. A parachute will slow it further, and a radio will shout an S O S. Finding the satellite with its undeveloped films or its beat-up "primate" should not be much harder than finding a missile's nose cone...
...sellout record for long-run shows. Oklahoma!, the former champ, missed out on some standees in its 143rd week; South Pacific had a few square feet of space in the rear of the theater after its 130th week. By year's end Lady's producers expect their books to show $10 million of gross business, a round million more than their nearest competitor, South Pacific...
...Lawn Tennis Association of Australia spitefully banned his touring pros from its affiliated courts. Snapped one official: "Australia is Kramer's happiest hunting ground. He is out to break the amateur game, and if the L.T.A.A. gives in to him now, he will succeed." Kramer bristled, "I would expect this kind of treatment only in Russia," added coals to the fire by signing Doubles Star Mervyn Rose, ranked No. 4 in Australia...