Word: leon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lawrence Olivier, a very handsome and athletic Orlando, was not much better. Only a few characters--the fool (McKeuzie Ward), Audrey the shepherdess (Doris Fordred), and, most of all. Leon Quatermaine as Jacques, escape a deadly conventionality in acting which oppresses the majority of the cast. Jacques's superb rendition of the "All the World's a Stage" speech makes a dull-evening a happy one. But for the others a tremendous consciousness that they were acting Shakespeare seemed to add pounds to every word, gesture and expression. The feeling assailed one after the first few lines and remained rarely...
...record was not improved by a performance of Delibes' Lakmé. New Conductor Maurice de Abravanel tortured this suave, tuneful music into Wagnerian thunder. Vina Bovy, cast as the Hindoo maid, remained Vina Bovy and gave little support to Basso Leon Rothier who made Nilakantha piteous with his fits of love and fury. Not till the middle of the week brought a competent Aïda and a warm, vivid Faust in French did critics feel confidence in Director Johnson's French & Italian wings...
...nominations for directors of the Alumni Association are: Duncan G. Harris '00, Lawrence Howe '07, Leon M. Little '10, Richard C. Floyd '11, Griscom Bettle '14, John M. Franklin '18, Frederick M. Warburg '19, Edward L. Bigelow '21, and Dr. Myles P. Baker...
...simple Adolf, decided deep Benito, was a rousing anti-Jewish article in Dictator Mussolini's personal newsorgan Popolo d'Italia. This tongue-in-cheek lashing of Jews last week served II Duce the further purpose of permitting him to attack by implication the Premier of France, M. Leon Blum, a Socialist and a Jew. Mussolini considers Blum scum for many reasons, and Popolo d'Italia, after noting that 98% of the French are NOT Jews, roundly declared that if 98% of the French were Jews, the remaining 2% of Frenchmen would have a much tougher time than...
...American Committee for the Defense of Leon Trotsky spat accusations at the Norwegian Government last week for its "indecent and filthy" behavior in placing the Great Exile & Mme Trotsky on the Norwegian tanker Ruth which, chuffing along toward Mexico, provokingly refused to answer radio questions...