Word: homond
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...intelligent and very able portrayal. Robert Weil, a barrel-bodied dwarf who did his all to hold up Ann Corio through three acts of "Sailor Beware," this season, turns up here as a two-bit Burlesque gagster, and is an extremely funny little man. William Mendrek and Ruth Homond, whose names appear on these pages from time to time, do their usually adequate job. And for purely local interest-besides some trim chorines who can't get telephones either-is Joe Battaglia '25, lisping an occasional word but more often playing a very neat brothel-piano background...
...repaid in trade. She gets her only opportunity for expression in the last act, and shows her years of experience well in building up to a pitch of fear that is broken by the murderer's dramatic entrance, and sends the balcony audience into the rafters. Ruth Homond, a winsome lass when she removes her horn-rimmed glasses--and you know she will--is a well-bred Pegeen Mike to the predatory "playboy," suffering only the occupational disease of being adequate. William Mendrek is a figure of bumptious incompetence as the casual prig who, in a poor imitation...
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