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...students only, the male roles were all played by women. But after all this simply reversed the ancient practice, which allowed all-make casts only. A few of the big rotes could have stood better but that is no reason to advocate a style of writing acting; yet Jeannette Hume had a number of fine moments as Elektra. And it was a good idea for Elizabeth Scarff to portray Cassandra as insane, for this made more credible the continued disbelief of all her auditors. I do wish something had been done about the actresses' accents: Attic Greek just does...
...guide to literature that might endanger faith or morals. By the 18th century, it was something of a sign of excellence to be listed; among the condemned classics of the Index are Montaigne's Essays, Gibbon's Decline and Fall, and the works of Descartes, Hume, Hobbes and Voltaire...
Speeches and toasts were followed with readings by Actor Hume Cronyn and his wife Jessica Tandy, who recited from the works of such well-known authors as Sir Winston Churchill, Edmund Burke, T. S. Eliot, William Shakespeare, Percy Bysshe Shelley and Lyndon Baines Johnson ("The Great Society asks not only how much, but how good . . ."). For the rest of the evening there was dancing. The President was not at his terpsichorean tops, but he did keep at it until...
...Hume, David, Toe Dangerous to Live...
...worst mysteries with an "X"; an extended search recently turned up two of these--Murder Island, by Wyndham Martyn, and The Screaming Skull and Other Stories, by Sidney Horler. Almost as rare were "A plus" novels: He Could Here Slipped, by Frances Beeding, Murders Force Fours, by David Hume, and The Happy Highwayman, by Leslie Charteris, were the only ones unearthed. The majority of the books received some variety of "A" or "B", however, and students who have read portions of the Reisner collection report that the grades are reasonably accurate, erring, if at all, on the side of generosity