Word: leona
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With the play set in a run down bar on the Pacific coast, we first see a middle-aged alcoholic hussy named Leona romp around the bar, addressing its apathetic customers. She has, it seems, beaten up a girl now whimpering in the ladies room. She talks about this, and about her relationship with the girl, but she gradually slips into the past and future. While she talks, she plays her favorite song on the jukebox, over and over; it serves as a background, an aural prop for the kind of good-time life she would like to think...
...road-show entourage is the core of Humbard's cathedral staff of 150. It includes Rex; his wife and soloist; his sister Leona, another singer; Leona's husband, Associate Pastor Wayn Jones; two sons, Rex Jr. and Don, who share television production tasks at home and sing on the road; Public Relations Man Johnny Hope, who sings and plays rhythm guitar; and a pianist and music arranger, Don Koker, who also sings...
Needless Sacrifices. Harvard Medical School's Dr. Leona Baumgartner, former New York City health commissioner, sees such sacrifices as needless. Trained as a pediatrician, she feels that women should be with their families on weekends. Convinced that women can successfully combine the careers of mother and doctor, she believes that more women will be encouraged to take up medicine when schools and hospitals recognize family obligations and needs and make realistic arrangements for coping with them...
Among those invited to the Nepalese bash are Charles W. Dunn, Master of Quincy House; Dr. Leona Baumgartner, visiting professor of Social Medicine; Joel M. Porte, Allston Burr Senior Tutor in Quincy House; John Darling, steward of the Fox Club; and Ko-Yung Tung, a first-year student in the Law School...
...LEONA ROCKWOOD Hamburg...