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...teetotaling Congressman Edwin Arthur Hall, he let fly again: "One of the most cowardly attacks in history . . . Perhaps ... [I] hit some guilty consciences and they yelled to high heaven. I was crucified on the House floor . . ." But the House, apparently confident that it had settled the miscreant's hash with one massive swat, did not seem to hear...
...Freshman Debating Society will hash out the first half of its annual Yale-Princeton triangular debate at 8 p.m. tonight in the Union...
...turn out a 30-minute show on a 5½-day schedule. He cuts financial corners by using only one camera and never reshooting a scene, and he tries to write his sparse dialogue so that a sequence can be ended at almost any point without making a hash of the plot...
...chief trouble was the setting-admittedly difficult inasmuch as Wozzeck has 15 swiftly changing scenes. Designer Mstislav Dubojinksy's stage was a stylistic hash laid out on two levels, with more exits, real and imaginary, than the auditorium of City Center itself. Among other things, the lighting was not subtle enough to disguise the unlikely fact that the pond in which Wozzeck drowns is atop both the room where his girl Marie lives and the room where the sadistic Doctor experimented...
French Accent. Besides playing in Don Juan, Charles Laughton staged and cast it. At first, he had trouble signing up Charles Boyer, who was afraid his French accent might make a hash of the long set speeches. "All right, Charles," said Laughton, "please recast the show for me and find someone else to do Don Juan." The delicate compliment did the trick. Says Laughton: "The public forgets that Boyer was a great actor before he ever became a romantic lead in movies...