Word: larson
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sharon Curtin's close friends is Miss Emily Larson, a skilled bridge player at 96, who became ill and was placed in a hospital for the old. There she "sundowned"-experienced hallucinations because of strange surroundings. Miss Larson had the sense-and means-to refuse to join other patients in "the parking lot," a drab room in which they were expected to sit mutely in wheelchairs or, as a special treat, were asked to sing childish songs. There was also Charlie, who had stuck his head in his gas oven, and who complained when rescued...
...music of Suffragette, written by Rubins and arranged by Peter Larson, orchestrator for the production, combines Alf and Charlie's music hall ditties with traditional theater music. With a full-pit orchestra and a strong emphasis on brass and cymbals, many of the songs have a marching, ballad-like quality which communicates the spirit of commitment that is at the center of Suffragette...
...entire production staff of Suffragette are long-standing devotees of Grant-in-Aid--until recently, the only theater society at Harvard that supported musical theater. Birnbaum, Rubins and Larson have directed or acted in every Grant-in-Aid production for the last six years. Every Grant-in-Aid production contributes its proceeds to the Radcliffe scholarship fund...
...does not help at all that in Jack Larson's libretto, Byron is given some of his own best lines. "She walks in beauty, like the night of cloudless climes and starry skies," is turned from soliloquy into colloquy, as the operatic Byron croons to one of his lady loves, "You walk in beauty," etc. Chuckles even broke out in the audience when Byron's friend, Thomas Moore, stepped to the stage apron to sing, "Remember that genius that gleamed in his verse." The tune turned out to be that for Believe Me If All Those Endearing Young...
Terry's liking for fast cars developed over time. He started out with one of those pale green six-cylinder Gimme-a-Six-for-Economy-Anytime Mustangs. He followed that up with a short infatuation with a canary yellow Triumph, and then moved into the big-time at Mel Larson's Beautiful Beeline Dragway, six miles east of Phoenix on Beeline Highway. "Sunday...