Word: freelander
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...demanding his dinner ("he only thinks about love," she observed) or showing off the 40,049 babies he had made by himself in a single day, and Harris Saunders, as the Journalist, twirled his umbrella suavely as he threatened to expose his father. Best of all, perhaps, was Roger Freeland as the continually benevolent and continually bewildered gendarme...
...Freeland also stood out in the curtainraiser, a dull concert version of Purcell's Indian Queen, because he sang English instead of whatever tenors are singing when they roll their r's like guttural hyenas on second-rate recordings of Handel oratorios. Fuller and McCarthy also sang well; Lise Landis, the clown Apollinaire described in one of his less inspired couplets as "Zanzibar's Monsieur Lacouf/Who died and died again without saying ouf," joined Peter Kellogg in an entr'acte dance that was both comic and lyrical...
...outstanding job as the child. His voice is suited to the part, and his movements were extremely well done. He handled himself beautifully on stage, in a manner many adult actors might emulate. Jane Struss, who played three roles, was outstanding as she always is. Chalyce Brown, Roger Freeland, and Doyle Wilcox also handled multiple parts, and did them with great versatility and talent. Peter Wylde's staging of the production made optimal use of a small space, and Gerald Moshell's musical direction was top-flight...
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...that held Northern Ireland together, it seemed, was the British army. Eleven thousand tommies under General Sir Ian Freeland patrolled Belfast and Londonderry and enforced a strict nighttime curfew. After the riots, General Freeland ordered his men to shoot to kill civilians carrying weapons. For a few days, such strict measures helped avert fresh outbursts in Belfast, even though 12,000 Protestants marched there in parades commemorating the 1916 Battle of the Somme in which 5,000 Ulstermen died. At week's end, however, pitched battles erupted between Catholics and troops who had discovered a cache of hidden weapons...