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Director Richard Grand and most of his cast have mastered this tone; they maintain an almost perfect balance between the mock-serious and the ham. Some of the principals were weak singers, and the articulation--an important quality in Gilbert and Sullivan--was uneven in both productions. But the G. and S. Players always know what they are doing, and they seem to take pleasure...
Frederick Brozer, on the other hand, sang very well indeed; but his speaking voice gave Pinafore an unfortunate Brooklynese note. Alison Keith, an old hand with G. and S., speaks and sings with great skill; her Little Buttercup was the best performance of the evening...
Back from an overseas vacation, Washington's gregarious Democratic Senator Warren G. Magnuson brought tidings to a private Seattle luncheon of a droll exchange between himself and Pope Pius XII. At the end of an audience with His Holiness, the Senator, having been tagged as a Lutheran, was about to leave. He clutched a box containing a rosary, a souvenir of his visit. The Pope asked him to tarry a moment and asked: "Did you look at what is in the box?" Magnuson allowed that he had peeked. Quipped the most urbane of modern pontiffs: "Sometimes when I give...
...original M-G-M movie Lassie (also male), now retired and blind...
...cost accommodations are now available to Harvard and Radcliffe faculty and students for a flight to Europe this summer, Stephen Salomon '58 has announced. Salomon has chartered a Flying Tigers Super G Constellation with seating space for 114 passengers...