Word: half
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After years of stalling, Congress finally voted Alaska to statehood-but it left its job half done by refusing to recognize the equally valid credentials of Hawaii...
...Exit begins at a scream pitch, just under the thin skin of hysteria, and sustains that pitch for an hour and a half. Whatever your views on decibel drama, the Harvard Summer Theatre Group's production is excellent...
...arena half surrounded by chairs looked to be successful. Hesse faced the formidable task of bringing forth fine performances from roles of ugly characters unredeemed by their self-realization of that ugliness. There's really nothing more to say except congratulations to him, to his actors and actresses, Producer John Friedman '60, and the production staff...
...second act was the triumph of the evening. The scene marked Eliza's first and half-educated entrance into high society. In this Miss Harris was perfect. Her conversation and accent, a mixture of her own flower-girl experience and the teaching of Professor Higgins, carried the one-sided conversation to a hilarious and colorful climax. She was ably assisted in this by Olive Dunbar as Mrs. Eynsford Hill, and Joyce Ebert as her daughter, whose wonderful indignant facial expression added a great deal of amusement to the overall scene. Cavada Humphrey, as Higgins' mother, played the Victorian matriarch...
...music, lived up to his fame for facile improvisation. Every time that something went wrong, the cry of "Mc Goo, fix it" went up. And he did. He manufactured a stage plug out of a piece of wood and scraps of copper wire, and he managed to rewire half the Harvard Union in an afternoon...