Word: margarets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Boston Repertory Association, under the direction of Michael Linenthal and Gerald Savory, has revived Mr. Savory's 12-year-old comedy, "George and Margaret," for its third production. It is a shallow, ordinary, domestic comedy, involving a British family of painfully familiar character types. It is also frequently very funny, mainly due to inordinately good acting and direction...
...George and Margaret" opens upon the breakfast table of the Garth-Banders, and as the members of the family tumble down to breakfast and begin to chatter unmercifully, the spectator finds he has been served: (1) a seemingly absent-minded but really very wise father; (2) an excitable, harassed but well-loved mother; (3) a sporty undergraduate son, much given to snappy, devastating insults; (4) a bouncy, easily-bruised daughter, much given...
...Savory has directed his own play and of course he knows every comic possibility and embellishment. Such polished direction as he has given "George and Margaret" would have been virtually impossible in the short rehearsal time available to the group, had not Mr. Savory had the experience of the play's two-year London run to draw on. In a sense, then, this is the same production, having the benefit of Mr. Savory's fully developed and expert staging...
...entrance of Frances Bavier in the last few minutes of "George and Margaret" is the damndest show-stopper I've seen. Tip-toeing on stage as the frightened and awkward new parlor main, Miss Bavier succeeded by pantomine in disrupting everything on both sides of the footlights for a few wonderful minutes of unbroken hilarity...
Softball, "R's": Barbara Beatley '50, Ann Burchsted '49, Charlotte Child '51, Marilyn Drewes '50, Miss Emerson, Camila Klein '48, Gloria Livermore '49, and Jo'Ann Jehl '50. Numerals: Mary Brandt '51, Abigail Caplan '50, Charlotte Coe '51, Anne Ewing '48, Margaret MacTavish '51, and Dianne Wertz...