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...people came to smell the roses. Montgomery, whose 13-acre concern has a $4.6 million annual billing, said $900,000 of it comes from contacts made at the flower show. He was one of 53 major exhibitors. Their flora took up six acres under the roof of the Philadelphia Civic Center. Montgomery is as good as anyone at giving a primer on the mercantile side of the matter...
...bees do it, but every year tens of thousands of British toads get squashed trying to do it. During migration from their winter woodland homes to springtime breeding ponds, the lovelorn toads frequently croak while crossing the country's roads. Shocked at this tragedy, Britain's Fauna and Flora Preservation Society has opened the country's first toad tunnel in Buckinghamshire. After a week of operation, officials were optimistic that the underpass would do the trick...
...drama. The action of the play centers on Miss Giddens (Ellen Harvey), a young governess for an unusual family in an old English country house, circa the late 1800's. The only residents of this isolated estate are two adolescent children, brother and sister, named Miles (Glen Whitney) and Flora (Kathy Urso), and their maid, Mrs. Grose (Carolyn Duffy...
...supporting cast, Carolyn Duffy gives the most solid performance while Urso and Whitney are only adequate as Flora and Miles. One wonders why director Martin chose to have Harvey use a British accent, and the others use American accents. This inconsistency is disturbing and distracts the audience even during the play's better moments...
...shared addiction to the rather obscure sport gives the hard-core players an identity as foosers. "It's a clique of addicts," says Manuel Lopez '89. And Flora Chang '86-'87 says, "A lot of the people in Quincy recognized me because I played foosball...