Word: macdonald
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...abrogate its duty of reporting the news? All wire services and morning dailies except one readily promised to observe the police deadline. The holdout: the Daily News, where a reporter promised to relay the police request to the city desk and call back. By 8 p.m. Police Secretary John MacDonald started telephoning the other morning papers to get formal confirmation of their pledge to withhold the story. But, said police, at about 8:30 p.m., the News had called to say it could not hold the story; by then a small early edition of the News was on the street...
Although the cast made a few first night slips, nobody seemed to mind. While Babs Loomis as Mad Margaret and John Holcenberg as Sir Roderick added a convincing supernatural touch to the whole affair, Elizabeth Petersen, Bruce Macdonald, and Robert Cortright added very solid singing performances...
...Gohr, who was responsible for direction, choreography, sets, and costumes, handled her job with finesse. Poor Macdonald was meek and shy, as he should have been, while Cortright made a most dauntless limey sailor. At times the latter was slightly unconvincing, but his singing and a fine first act dance made up for any acting deficiency. Miss Petersen never could make up her mind what man she should marry and Loomis was mad as a hatter. Victor Altschul, Chester Hartman, and Alison Keith all added convincing Gilbert and Sullivan acting techniques to the production. Musical arrangements by pianist Richard Friedberg...
...country squire who made a brilliant record as a classics scholar and orator at Oxford in the '20s. At Christ Church College he argued Asian affairs with Upperclassman Anthony Eden, was often disturbed at study by boisterous parties in Eden's rooms. He once beat out Malcolm MacDonald, Britain's High Commissioner in India, for secretary of the Oxford Union...
Other speakers will be W. Barton Leach, Director of the Defense Studies Program, Carl J. Friedrich, Eaton Professor of the Science of Government, and Professor Duncan MacDonald of Boston University...