Word: mangan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Despite the dropping of the PBH tutoring programs, one special tutoring project was tentatively approved last night. A special project for one anti-poverty area was presented to the educational task force by William J. Mangan '66, who lives in the area and represents his local planning team. Funds for this program will be applied for under a special part of the anti-poverty act that supports demonstration projects...
Jacqueline Tabachnick, as Hesione Hushabye, handles these passage well, especially her speech at the end of Act I. She does nearly everything else well, too; her scene with Ellie and the sleeping Boss Mangan is the show's finest comic moment. Susan Schwartz (Ellie Dunn), Pat Fay (Lady Utterword), and Joseph Boyd (Randall Utterword) are competent performers, who only occasionally suffer lapses of concentration...
...Schwind, Jr. (Boss Mangan) has absolutely no idea what he is supposed to be doing on the stage, but I suppose it is not his fault, but rather director Charles H. Flowers'. Mangan the irresponsible, somewhat inept industrialist, is perhaps not the cigar-chomping, slave-driving type. But Schwind's Mangan was far too foppish, and the five or six accents he tried all reverted to the original pseudo-Exeter Academy...