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Along with Clare Scott Lee Jeffries and Thomas Whedon were the stalwarts of the cast, with Andre Gregory not making the transition from legitimacy to the music hall quite so effortlessly. Miss Jeffries was the only reason for including a tired sequence about planned amusement at the beach, and Whedon...

Author: By Arthur J. Langguth, | Title: Great to Be Back! | 4/15/1955 | See Source »

Only a slight fault of interpretation or stiffness in acting technique separates most of the others in the cast from the standard set by the three principles. Robert Beaty understands his part as a kindly, ineffectual old man but plays him as something of a crochet and far too sharp...

Author: By Robert J. Schoenberg, | Title: The Seagull | 3/18/1955 | See Source »

Clare Scott as the Red Queen, Lee Jeffries as the White Queen, and Timothy Cogan as the Mad Hatter give their parts true Carrollian personalities, although Cogan is too often difficult to understand. All the other characters add ably to the total merriment, and when Alice asks at the end...

Author: By John A. Pope, | Title: Alice in Wonderland | 2/16/1955 | See Source »

It was also the 50th anniversary of man's first powered flight, and it was celebrated by two Americans, first Scott Crossfield, flying at 1,327 m.p.h., then the Air Force's Major "Chuck" Yeager, ripping through the substratosphere at more than 1,600 m.p.h., 2½ times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MAN OF THE YEAR: We Belong to the West | 1/4/1954 | See Source »

Pierson College toppled Lowell, 19 to 0. At the beginning of the second period Paul Jeffries flipped a 30 yard pass to George Ellis in the end zone. Then at the start of the second half Paul Hoymann took a Jeffries handoff and dove over the line for a touchdown...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Branford, Other Yale Teams Victorious in Inter-College Contests | 11/21/1953 | See Source »

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