Word: manners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that Our Town is not a play at all, but a novel galvanized!" Taking over the function of a novel's omniscient narrator, Wilder's Stage Manager, the instrument by which he creates the largely invisible, but believable world of Grovers Corners, New Hampshire, must be impeccable in both manner and dialogue. Edward Finnegan, the Stage Manager in the Charles Players' production is all this and more, and most of the play's success can be attributed to his well-timed gestures of hat and pipe and his thoroughly "North of Boston" accent...
This time we are graced with a small monthly magazine, Gadfly, which proudly bills itself as "a magazine of criticism and controversy." Much in the manner of St. George and the Dragon, the editors of Gadfly hope, with five short essays and several "artsy" commentaries, to stimulate the sleeping masses, the great lithesome Blob which is our community...
...tourists who visit Cuzco, has started a search to find the missing statue. Panagra reasons that if the foundry sent Powhatan to Peru, it may have sent Atahuallpa to some U.S. town square. He should be easy to spot. He is robust, with short-cropped hair, grave manner, handsome face, fierce eyes. He wears an elaborate band around his forehead, and a collar of large emeralds...
...Lambeth," said a top British cleric this week. "Archbishop of Canterbury Fisher has been a bit conservative, perhaps, in his approach to TV and other 20th century methods of mass communication. Bayne is from the New World; he is young and wants to grapple in a modern manner with the problems facing the church today. He wants to see that we don't go on plodding along the road we have always been plodding along. There's been a lot of fluttering in the dovecots over Bayne's appointment, but it's mostly with pleasure...
Clements is now booked well ahead in provincial arenas, hopes to return to Spain and fight as a full-fledged matador by next Easter. Sidney Franklin is convinced that his young charge is going to be great. Says he: "Nobody in Mexico has his style and manner in killing. And only one-Antonio Ordóñez-can match him in Spain...