Word: gingold
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hermione Gingold is a very funny lady. That, plus a talented cast and a lot of first-class material, make "It's About Time" entirely irresistible. And that's a lot to say about a musical revue...
First, Hermione Gingold. As she will tell you herself soon after the show begins, it's pronounced "Hermy-oh-nee." She is a performer with a flamboyant earthy style that takes you by storm. She flounces about like a whirlwind, lifts her skirts slyly, twists her string of pearls, tosses off innuendoes, and grimaces. When she has good material, and luckily that is often, she is howlingly funny. For example, her discussion and demonstration of some obscure comp o s e r's "Grasshopper's Dance" is a genuine delight...
Ronnie Graham is featured with Miss Gingold. There is something a little unearthly about the way he rolls and pops his eyes, but the fact is he's one of the cleverest comedians around. His humor leans toward the macabre, a fact that is quite refreshing in itself. The young man's monologue as a marijuana-smoking bop musician is fast and witty...
...only misrepresentation was made by Lucky Strike's typesetters: "K. G. Ingold" exists. He is actually Kurt Gingold 1G, Conant Hall 15a, a section man in Chemistry 1. Gingold sent in his jingle on October 1; Batten, Barton, Durstine, and Osborn, the Lucky Strike advertising agency, dispatched him a $28.00 check on October 20. Gingold violated no longstanding rule since he is a graduate student and does not come under "Regulations for Students in Harvard College...