Word: jo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Opportunities for the interested student at the University of Massachusetts are excellent," Jo A. Warren '60, commented. Nevertheless, she noted that "the values of the college do not reinforce intellectual orientation...
Under Peter Glenville's firm direction, this misanthropic drama thrums with barbaric violence, yet unfolds with the stylized gravity of ballet. Rashomon is rich in theater craft-Jo Mielziner's doom-dappled lighting, Laurence Rosenthal's eerily instrumented score, Oliver Messel's turntable forest of disenchantment. Apart from a U.N.-like babel of accents, the brilliant cast often achieves a triumph of mime over matter. Radiant, in white kimono, as netted moonlight, Claire Bloom is part lotus flower, part flower of evil. Noel Willman's samurai is a bred-in-the-bone aristocrat...
...state elections, the U.D.N. scored a stunning victory. It picked up two new governorships, added six Senate seats to its 13, seven more Chamber of Deputies posts to make 81. The win was a massive upset for Brazil's leftist labor party and its demagogic boss, Vice President Joāo ("Jango") Goulart, who also has his sights on the presidency. Goulart openly wooed the votes of Brazil's Communists. It cost him thousands of votes; Brazilians flocked to the U.D.N. Said Juracy* last week: "Our party has obviously prospered...
...things run counter to the rest: Jo Mielziner's ingenious, bright sets, and 19-year-old French-Chinese Actress Nuyen's fetching personality. A more slushy than sexy blend of sex and slush, Suzie Wong should linger long on Broadway, just the thing for matinee ladies munching tear-splashed caramels or for gentlemen with a slightly adolescent fondness for tarts...
...contest between Richard (Damn Yankees) Adler's tunes and Louisa May Alcott's sentimentalities, in this musical adaptation of the 1868 novel. The cast is not so much well-rounded as well-scattered: the Met's Rise Stevens as Marmee, toothy Comedienne Jeannie Carson as Jo, grown-up Cinemoppet Margaret O'Brien as Beth (who will not die in this version...