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...scientific and psychological material, and the translation is at least awkward in many instances. Weil's success in evident in the continuity of which distinguish the play. Careful and demanding directing is manifest in the scenes with the main characters, the father, his wife Laura, and the nurse, Marguerita, in the sculptured interaction built on the electric variety of human nature. The production is not altogether realistic, but maintains a fascinating dream-like quality which is often characteristic of times of crisis...
...writer could bungle May 10-11, 1941 completely, and Collier has pages of stirring authenticity. His sense of small drama is sure: pretty Marguerita Stahli, buried alive for 15 long minutes, fearful only that her fiance might have died during the blast (he did); the curiosity of the men in Fighter Command Operations Room as they plot the erratic flight up the North Sea coast of a lone Messerschmitt bearing Deputy Fuehrer Rudolf Hess on his mad "peace mission" to King George VI. Such touches have the gritty reality...
...rally, which began near University Hall at 7 p.m., built up momentum by 8 p.m., when the crowd of undergraduates and their dates gathered by Widener to cheer and listen to freshman coach Bob Marguerita, who told them "the bulldog is still a pup." A small group of Yale freshman and jayvee football players shouted Eli songs, to the annoyance of the very highly partisan crowd...
Died. Mady (Marguerita Maria) Christians, 49, one of Broadway's leading old-school actresses (I Remember Mama; Watch on the Rhine) ; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Norwalk, Conn. Born in Vienna, she first walked on stage at 16 in her father's German theater in Manhattan, returned to Germany to study with Starmaker Max Reinhardt, made scores of European films. After a brief marriage to a Hamburg editor, she came to the U.S. again in 1931, played roles ranging from Hamlet's mother to William Powell's screen mistress...
...Ring for his star parts. And, catching them when they needed money, he contracted with Playwrights Ben Hecht & Charles MacArthur to write a libretto on which he could string his circus acts, stars and tunes. Messrs. Hecht & MacArthur repaired for a fortnight last winter to Suite No. 21, Villa Marguerita, Charleston, S. C., the exact spot where they turned out their memorable Front Page and 20th Century...