Word: halper
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Philadelphia Story, in case anybody missed the film, is about romantic entanglements. Specifically those of dim-witted Philadelphia socialite Tracy Lord (Sarah Halper) and the two men who want her attention: George Kittredge (John Frost), Tracy's ex-husband and, by the end, everybody's hero...
...this basically sound production, the most apparent flaw is with the character of Tracy. Some of this might be attributable to a slow start on opening night, for Halper did seem to improves as the play wore on. But Halper's performance consistently lacked vocal or facial life and expression. Because Tracy Lord is the central character of the play, this partially flawed performance casts a shadow over the entire production...
...original, but never very closely. Macbett meets the witches while hitchhiking in a storm, and the self-professed personification of faithfulness has to be literally forced into committing Duncan's murder. The witches are quite good; the female portion of the cast (Rebecca Menes, Daniele Schecter, and Sarah Halper) is much more capable than the male. Schecter plays a delightfully sleazy general with leather skirt and riding crop, and ably changes gears to play a maid in the second half. Menes, as Lady Duncan-cum-witch, slinks gracefully around the stage, an able temptress. She should have given the rest...
...Irwin Halper, 35, the part-owner of a paper-goods company in New Jersey, put his money into tax-free bonds for several years and, more recently, into All Savers Certificates to take advantage of high interest rates. With the stock market shooting up, Halper last week called his stockbroker at Shearson/American Express and placed a buy order. Said he: "The yields were no longer attractive, so I decided to buy about $35,000 in blue-chip stocks." Millions of small investors left the market in the long bear market of the early 1970s, but many of them...