Word: hula
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...debt to Long Day's Journey Into Night. Although the cast often does not reach potential depths of character, both Ed Walsh, as the younger son who revolts, and Yvonne Korshak, as the aging but eager aunt, bring excellent consistent emotion into earnestly wrought characterizations. After her beautifully timed hula dance during dinner, the high point of the play, the stage suffers from loose writing and looser pacing. Director Lumbard lacked the experience to build through to the end; his staging was often too static and hesitant...
...indiscretions, overdoing the broadest points, throwing away the few finer ones. Sylvia Stahlman (Eurydice) had the prettiest voice, at its best in The Old Time Religion ("Bacchus my king, O let's be romantic"), and Hiram Sherman (Jupiter) hammed his part happily, right down to losing his hula skirt. Musico-medienne Paula Laurence was the most professional of all as Miss P. (for Public) Opinion, "a vestal virgin with a bachelor's degree." Her message: break as many commandments as you please, except for "Thou shalt not be found out." But the audience easily found out Librettist Bentley...
...change in atmospheric pressure was so sudden that she got the moral bends. Everybody in the house was a movie extra, and the first day Norma Jeane was there they gave her whisky bottles to play with, taught her a card game and put her up to a hula dance. "They drank, they smoked, they swore," says Marilyn. "It used to keep me busy praying for them...
...insisted that discrimination against Asians was entirely a wartime, military measure. To get the technological jump on Trans-Pacific it replaced four of its old DC-35 with five new, 284-m.p.h., 44-passenger Convairs, costing upwards of $600,000 apiece. Trans-Pacific counterattacked by having its hostesses do hula dances aloft, set up a charge-account service, pioneered cut-rate family fares...
...Catholic, but I . . . want to give you my highest praise for your article on the Maryknoll Sisters [April 11]. I am glad to read that they are broadminded enough to appreciate the hula, and that some of them keep up with things by seeing movies. I also agree that their habits could use some redesigning, but nuns should look like nuns, and not like policewomen or WAFs...