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...terrific things about this double bill is that most of the actors in the first play return for the second. Orion Ross sheds the stuffy English character to stand out as the cutie pie-Casanova who bunny hops his way around the stage, causing Princess Huncamunca (Jennifer Gibbs) to lustily gnaw away at her sheets. Also in pursuit of the tiny Tom is the Amazonian Queen Glumulca (Margaret Meserve), who effectively vents out her sexual trustrations by devouring whole cabbage heads and stomping around the kingdom in her funky metallicized platform shoes...

Author: By Esther H. Won, | Title: Double Good, Double Pleasure | 4/14/1989 | See Source »

...Lowell JCR hosts two comedies this weekend, Tom Thumb and The Great Catherine. Tom Thumb is a parody of Elizabethan drama in which the finger-sized hero falls in love with King Arthur's little known daughter, Huncamunca. George Bernard Shaw's The Great Catherine parodies a stuffy British man's encounter with the nymphomaniacal Russian Empress. Both dramas are one-act plays that Bader and Thompson have set against colorful circus surroundings. These performances run through next weekend in Lowell House...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Arts on Campus | 4/7/1989 | See Source »

Freshman Executive Athletic Board; Freshman Soccer; Winter and Spring Track; Played "Huncamunca" in Kirkland's "Tom Thumb"; House Football, Soccer, Track, Gelf; Dean's List; P.B.H. Blood D Ive; Hasty Pudding Club; "Vagabonds...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Class Marshal Candidates | 12/2/1965 | See Source »

...furies of pre-Civil War life in the very language of those wonderful, distant days. His racy and ebullient yarns of plugging canal leaks, spiriting runaway slaves along the underground railway, and keeping books for a traveling circus are crammed with theologasters, dawpluckers, makebates, hoodledashers and such archaic huncamunca. His grandson's version of baseball in the Abner Doubleday country may not be so uproarious as James Thurber's rowdy recollections of the game in Columbus, Ohio. But his saga of Hop Bitters ("The Invalid's Friend& Hope"-alcoholic content: 40%), which Patent Medicine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Life with Grandfather | 7/25/1955 | See Source »

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