Word: hamilton
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...play proper introduces us first to Mrs. Dudgeon, the one thoroughly unplesasant and unsympathetic person Shaw ever fashioned. Through her Shaw was attacking what he viewed as the worst aspects of organized religion. In this production the role is in the capable hands of Margaret Hamilton, making her Festival debut (she played the same role a dozen years ago in Philadelphia). Those to whom this name means nothing will more easily recognize her as the Wicked Witch of the West in the famous movie The Wizard of Oz. My own most admiring recollection of her comes from seeing her play...
...Miss Hamilton gives a fine portrayal of the newly-widowed Mrs. Dudgcon. Not only is she cruel and bigoted and flamboyantly ascetic, but she is made to appear hypocritical too, as Miss Hamilton quickly pulls out a handkerchief when the minister enters. And she knows how to put over a remark like, "Well, I am Richard's mother. If I am against him who has any right to be for him?" Shaw has also allowed her to be unintentionally funny, as when she dismisses her brother's bastard daughter Essic with the comment, "Your history isn't fit for your...
...HAMILTON COLLEGE...
Once granted condemnation rights, Con Ed would eventually expand the 8-billion gallon reservoir to cover an extra 160 acres of Harvard land, Hamilton estimated...
...climate has changed in the country." Hamilton said, noting the upsurge in environmental concern. "We will be fighting, against a more favorable backdrop...