Word: idler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Suzanne Chappell '54 will star as Nora in Idler's production of Ibsen's "The Doll House." Alice Walsh 52, Idler president, announced yesterday. December 7 and 8 have been set as production dates for the play...
...work: the endless quest for verbal perfection. Often he spent weeks on a single page. To his young protégé, Guy de Maupassant, he wrote: "You must-believe me, young man-you must do more work. I am coming to suspect you of being somewhat of an idler. Too many tarts, too much rowing and too much exercise. A cultured man has not as much need of exertion as doctors pretend...
...Killing sparrows," Georgia's Senator Walter George called it scornfully. But Illinois' Paul Douglas and Michigan's Homer Ferguson doggedly went on setting their small snares for the bureaucratic idler and the freehanded spender. In the Senate last week, first one and then the other bobbed up to offer money-saving amendments to the $2,528,000,000 appropriation for the Federal Security Agency and the Labor Department...
...weakness of Idler's production must be blamed largely on the director, who gambled on surmounting the thinness of the material by turning the play into a farce. He seems to have convinced the actors that the tongue is swifter than the ear, so that by misdirecting the audience with frenzied gestures, meanwhile speeding through lines, they might hide the fact that the dialogue makes no pretense at being funny. The women, including Barbara Poses, Patricia Rosenwald, and Marilyn Welch succeed better than the men, but it's hard to fool a whole audience for three acts...
...charters for Radio Radcliffe and Idler were also approved at the meeting...