Word: janes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Farce tends to make Harvard actors foresake the search for truth in favor of mugging and running around, and none of these three productions is exempt from this tendency. As indicated above, there are compensations (Jane Fishburne's imaginative costumes comprise another.) But whoever exhumed these scripts deserves a citation for industry very far beyond the call of duty. There is something exhilarating about a triumph over a script that has outlived its audience-appeal, but there is something even more exhilarating about a successful collaboration with a good...
...that Barnard Hall girls don't like to dress well, it's just that they like to be well-dressed without the competitive spirit entering into it," according to Barnard's contestant, Jane St. Leger...
...Marian Anderson, among others, have played the White House.*Only last year some show business commentators-including Critic Coe-blamed the Eisenhowers for requesting too many command performances (traditionally unpaid) from well-known entertainers. Ike never cared much for White House vaudeville (the acts are booked by Mary Jane McCaffree, Mamie's secretary), prefers movies, which he takes along on his vacations (he likes westerns, but has been known to protest when they show cavalry procedure incorrectly). As for Lawrence Welk, both the Eisenhowers and the Nixons dug him. Ike tapped his foot vigorously in time with...
...Well, my interest in the Jivarros began as a small boy. I was brought up on the Orinoco, you know. God's country, you know--God's country. My father was a trader, and my mother, Jane, well she was of creole stock. So I am almost a native myself." He took another whiff of blow-gun smoke, tweaked his head's nose and continued...
Professor Quaeritor confesses to having a wife and family, of sorts. "My wife's name is also Jane--a coincidence, you know. We both indulge in an extracurricular liking for Chilean Dixieland; I always go to Mahogany Hall when they feature the Valparaiso Stompers...