Word: juliets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this system started with Adam, it would have meant that Antony would have met Cleopatra all right; but Abelard and Heloise would have missed by one letter, and Romeo and Juliet wouldn't have stood by a balcony, much less a chance...
...nervous too. Kieran launched into a list of ten new questions. "From where does this line come: 'Night's candles are burn t out and jocund day stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops'?" Stone pondered, perspired, gave up. Coe knew the answer: Romeo and Juliet. After that he stayed one question ahead. But on the last question he said the circumference of the earth was 27,000 miles. Stone got it right: 25,000 miles. The two had finished in a dead heat again...
...part since. A hardworking, not very confident, thoroughly un-actory actor, he trudged slowly to the top, has also made a name for himself in British cinema (The Citadel, The Silver Fleet). In 1935 he made his only U.S. appearance, as Mercutio in the Katharine Cornell Romeo and Juliet. In 1939 he joined the Fleet Air Arm, "flew all day and never thought of anything. I was deaf as an adder and had a wonderful appetite." Last year he and his fellow flyer, Olivier, were released to revive the blitzed...
...Mielziner (pronounced Mell-zeener) completed his 150th Broadway assignment. Since he first caught the public's eye in 1924 with his sets for The Guardsman, he has designed such varied productions as Strange Interlude, Street Scene, The Barretts of Wimpole Street, the Katharine Cornell Romeo and Juliet, the Gielgud Hamlet, Winterset, Watch on the Rhine, The Glass Menagerie, Carousel. Most theatergoers today, asked to name a stage designer, and most producers out to hire one, would think first of Mielziner...
Though fully aware of her theatrical inexperience, Novelist Lillian Smith decided to dramatize Strange Fruit herself for fear that an "outside dramatist" would misrepresent the book. Says she: "I knew it would have been easy to make a racial Romeo and Juliet out of it ... I wanted a panoramic picture of human beings-white and colored-trapped by the whole mechanism of segregation. I broke a great many rules but I knew what rules I was breaking . . . I'm proud of it ... I wouldn't change a word...