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Guest in the House (adapted by Hagar Wilde & Dale Eunson from a story by Katherine Albert; produced by Stephen & Paul Ames) introduces the most unpleasant stage character of the season, pretty, white-faced Evelyn Heath. A semi-invalid, Evelyn (effectively played by Cinemactress Mary Anderson) comes to visit some kindhearted relatives, at first proves only a nuisance who demands a lot of waiting on, but soon turns into a back-stabbing monster who plots everyone's destruction. She enrages the servants, drives the husband to drink, wrecks his career, ruins his marriage, makes a shrew of his wife...
...Carolina's Superior Court, Felix E. Alley-on whose Random Thoughts and Musings of a Mountaineer TIME reported - has had quite a life of his own. Born in 1873 at the base of North Carolina's Whiteside Mountain, Felix was the youngest of ten children, an asthmatic invalid as a boy. He worked his way through several years of high school, spending 5? or 10? a month for pleasure and keeping house for himself in a mountainside cabin. He borrowed $300 for a year of law school, finished his studies at night while clerking...
...ballots showed that some voters failed to avail themselves of the privilege of voting for nine Council candidates, only four or five being marked. On other ballots, however, painstaking Cantabrigians went through the process of listing the entire 80 names in order of performance. A remarkably low percentage of invalid ballots was noticed by officials...
...satire on the medical quackery of his day, Moliere's play becomes dated for a modern audience. "The Imaginary Invalid" nevertheless, is a far cry from the archaic. In the witty lines of the French master, the universal idiosyncrasies of the hypochondriac are ample material for an evening of delightful comedy. The Repertory version employs a single setting--Argan's sick-room--in which the familiar touch of John Holabird '42 appears with good effect...
...extremely low subscription and single-performance rates the Repertory continues to offer Boston its best entertainment buy, and certainly warrants a full house for each of the season's ten productions. "The Imaginary Invalid" will play again on November 5 and 6, with "The Vortex" following...