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...show doesn’t quite pick up steam until the entrance of Merryman Jack Point (Samuel Gale Rosen ’06) and his Merrymaid Elsie Maynard (Celia R. Maccoby ‘06) about halfway through the first act. Rosen, in particular, brings a real sense of physical comedy to the stage. As a result, every performer in a scene with him ends up inevitably playing straight man (or woman...
...prisoner and falsely accused sorcerer who finds himself incarcerated in the Tower of London. While imprisoned, Fairfax manages to marry Elsie Maynard (Celia R. Maccoby ’07), a singer whose commitment is questionable: she is already engaged to a jester named Jack Point (Samuel Gale Rosen ’06). Fairfax’s rather blatant admirer, Phoebe Meryll (Jessica G. Peritz ’06) helps him to escape and hijinks ensue in typical Gilbert and Sullivan style with some surprising twists at the finale...
Former Crimson associate managing editor Mary Ellen Gale ’62, who made up the paper’s one-person Tuskegee bureau, stuck with the paper until just before the Courier closed in 1968 because of a lack of funds. Gale covered landmark events like the funeral of Martin Luther King, Jr., but also local violence, including the gruesome murder of Sammy Young, Jr., who was shot in the head for trying to use a “Whites Only” toilet...
...think people were really willing to talk to us for a lot of reasons,” Gale said. “For one thing, there were black people whose lives had never been covered with respect. We did that...
Trees were "lash't as tho by a gale," bystanders reported, and fields undulated "like the waves of an ocean." Buildings swayed, clocks stopped, church bells rang, water mains burst, gas lines broke, electrical wires snapped and sparked. Then came the flames, which for three days burned out of control as firefighters stood helplessly...