Word: lemmon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...compare everything with "Oklahoma!"--the show has faults, including a weak finale, a dreary Indian ritual dance, and an occasional monotony in the total effect of the score. For connoisseurs of show music the best songs are "New England in the Autumn," a gay number by John Knowles, John Lemmon, and William Scudder, and "If He Ain't Got a Woman," a bluesy tune by Courtney Crandall and Sendder. For mothers and sisters of Pudding members Julian Hatton, Jr., as a beautiful Priscilla and Frederick Lamont, Jr., as somebody funny called Billington stand out in the all-male cast...
Fortunately, neither of the plays presented this season went bad for lack of acting ability. Ted Allegretti, John Lemmon, and others of the Harvard Dramatic Club have shown themselves capable of handling anything within the realm of reasonable histrionies. Mendy Weisgal, Marie Heath, and the company of the Veterans Theater Workshop displayed unusual talent in keeping a shoddy vehicle moving. Clearly, the faults that resulted in snarling press notices and red-scrawled ledgers lay in the choosing and not the acting of the productions...
...part that didn't rate billing, and was, unfortunately, forgotten by the CRIMSON reviewer. When handled by an actor of intelligence and deep feeling, such roles provide some of the most exciting moments in the theatre. Such a role is Oddly-Come-Short and such as actor is John Lemmon...
Divorced. Jacob L. ("Jakie") Webb, 27, errant great-great-grandson of the original Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt; by Lenore Lemmon, 22, Manhattan cafe character; after ten days of marriage, 4½ years of separation, no children; in West Palm Beach...
Private Jacob L. ("Jakie") Webb, 27, playful great-great-grandson of the original Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt, sued his wife for divorce while he sweated out a sentence, his second, for going AWOL. The wife: Cafe Society Character Lenore Lemmon, who married him in 1941 and abruptly went home to mother crying that he was tattooed from head to foot. Jakie's divorce charge: she was AWOL...