Word: janes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...prostitute Jenny, will make even the most sentimental viewer forgive her for replacing the familiar German accent of Lotte Lenya. "The Pirate Jenny" and "The Solomon Song" are two of the best examples of Weill and Brecht's art and Miss Sielewicz gives them at least their due. Sara-Jane Smith plays Polly Peachum with a fine veneer of innocence and propriety barely covering Polly's lusty nature. Miss Smith, with the entire cast, seems completely to understand her role, and credit for this must go to director Stephen Aaron. Each character is brought out and paraded in his turn...
...actors, under shrewd direction, prove almost everywhere as good as their material. Joe Mantell is the living image of a lamppost primitive. Betsy Blair is fully convincing as the sort of plain Jane whose homeliness is only skin-deep. Ernest Borgnine as Marty lives up to all the promise he showed as the sadist in From Here to Eternity, and at the same time brilliantly shatters the type-cast he molded for himself in that picture. His Marty is fully what the author intended him to be-a Hamlet of butchers...
...program called Masquerade Party has achieved a clown's gallery of Senators, e.g., Indiana's Republican Senator Homer Capehart came with a Roman toga draped around his aldermanic figure, South Dakota's Republican Senator Karl Mundt and his wife appeared as Wild Bill Hickok and Calamity Jane, Alabama's Democratic Senator John Sparkman (his party's 1952 nominee for Vice President) showed up disguised as a fireman...
Other marshals will be Eleanor M. Bronson of Holmes Hall and Yakims, Wash, Commencement chairman; Ann C. Crawford of 13 Walker St. and New York City, baccalaureate chairman; and Betsy C. Ross of Briggs and New York City and Jane B. Flanders of Holmes and West Orange, N.J., co-chairmen of class night...
Radcliffe seniors will vote for five Class Marshals, Class Agent, and Secretary on March 28 and 29. Candidates for Agent are: Andrey Golden, Wendy Goodell, Johanns Kechler; Marshals: Eleanor Bronson, Ann Crawford, Phyllis Fitzpatrick, Jane Flanders, Clementina Kuhlman, Mary MacGregor, Betsy Ross, Lorna Sagendorph, Jewelle Taylor, Janet Titus...