Word: joshed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rest of the principals are great, too. Adorable Eleanor Lindsay is nothing less than adorable as Emerson's wife. And, in an extraordinary stroke of casting genius, Birnbaum has placed Josh Rubins, of all people, in the role of Richard, Sid's teenage nephew who learns the joys of love and drink during the play's course. The part has a lot of laughs, but Rubins never milks them. He is splendid, and so is Sheila Hickey as his intended...
...Died. Josh White, 61, Negro blues and folk singer, whose laments in the 1940s led to a rebirth of folk music in the U.S.; during heart surgery; in Manhasset, N.Y. Born in Greenville, S.C., White spent his youth roaming through the South with such master bluesmen as Joel Taggart and Blind Lemon Jefferson. In 1941, he burst on the scene with Chain Gang, a bestselling record album of songs from the Georgia prison farms. Before long, he had scores of imitators around the country, and became a nightclub fixture-casually hunched over his guitar, a burning cigarette tucked behind...
...show stays well above a hackneyed combination of a dominating mother and fairy tale. The lines stay fresh onstage. Aggravain's "Remember, blood will tell and yours didn't tell us quite enough," said to a flunking wife-candidate, is a lot funnier under Josh Rubin's direction than it is in the libretto...
...Josh Rubins' direction is unobtrusive and skilful but it lacks the aggressive and stimulating thrust of the recent great Harvard student directors. Nevertheless Rubins handles mass scenes very well and moves his actors around in graceful and complex patterns...
James Atlas is a sophomore and a member of The Harvard Advocate. Steven Stahler is a junior at Columbia majoring in physics. Clyde Lindsay is a senior and a member of Harvard Afro, and has served in the U.S. Army. Josh Freeman is a junior living offcampus on Beacon Hill. John Short is an editor of The Crimson Supplement. Joel Kramer is president of the CRIMSON. William Bryson and Adele Rosen are senior editors of the CRIMSON...