Word: janes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Other committee heads elected were: Curricular, Natalie Dosick '52; Library, Margaret Fitzgerald '52; Orientation, Phebo Crampton '52; Publicity, Elizabeth Fleischner '54 and Ruth Jacobson '52; Community Service, Mary Jane Wade '52 and Phyllis Watt '54; Health Center, Ellin Louria '52; Social, Rachel Mellinger '52; Student Employment, Pamela Huntsman-Trout '52. The new editor of the Red Book, the student handbook, is Gloria Wagstaff...
...movie surrounds Hope with a whole gallery of Runyon types sporting names like Gloomy Willie (William Frawley) and Straight Flush (Jay C. Flippen). Jane Darwell plays an authentic old doll named Nellie Thursday, and Marilyn Maxwell supplies songs and cheesecake as a showgirl reluctantly in thrall to the Lemon Drop Kid. They treat their problems with deadpan earnestness, as Runyon intended them to, and beneath each sharp lapel and checkered vest beats a heart of gold...
Boris Pascuniak's sensitive directing keeps the story probable and well-paced; he is helped out a great deal by a delightfully pastoral musical score by Bonar Gillis. The acting, unfortunately, is less competent. Jane Cruikshank plays the Snopes daughter with a sheepish grin, while Basil Mange is never convincing as the anthropologist-congressman who finally settles the inter-racial strife. "North Forty's" technicolor sheep are wonderfuly convincing, however, and they leave the moviegoer with a true sensation of the Old West...
Lillian Helman, another powerful voice out of the recent past, has a now drama at the Coronet at 49th Street. The Autumn Garden stars Frederic March, Florence Eldridge, Jane Wyatt, and Kent Smith. Movie star Olivia de Havilland is leading a company of Romeo and Juliet at the Broadhurst, on 44th...
Astaire's dancing, Jane Powell's charm, and the Technicolor pageantry of London during Elizabeth's wedding more than compensate for a weak plot. As musicals go, "Royal Wedding" is good light-hearted entertainment...