Word: matilda
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...least once during each show he slouches comfortably about the floor directing irrelevant patter at waiters, musicians and ringside patrons ("Don't pay, comrades! Let's make a rush for the door!"). He often finishes by kidding his audience into joining him in a few choruses of Matilda: "Big Spenders be still! Now the intellectuals! EVERYBODY...
...Matilda Cole '60 will portray the married woman; her husband will be played by Alan Rinzler '60. Arthur N. Papas '59, Malcolm Ticknor '57, and O'Brien Nicholas '59 will appear as the three intruders. Howard M. Brown '51, a former tutor in Lowell House will direct the production...
...returned to Portland to court a hearty, good-looking social worker named Matilda Baricevich. "Mat" knew that marriage to Mike meant frozen bliss in the tundra. "I rather looked forward to it," she says, "even though I had the usual idea of eternal snow and sled dogs cuddling up to you in a cabin for warmth." Mike went on to Fairbanks in the fall of 1947, took his bar exams. Before the year was out, he was appointed city attorney and had settled down with Mat in a four-bedroom frame house...
...much it means. People say hello, everything's gay and fine. And then comes that time-the time when you know you're going to have to stop just showing your teeth and start producing." Mike started producing right after his inauguration in June 1957. Says Matilda, who calls him "Mali" (Slavic for "little boy"): "When we were living in Fairbanks and Mali was practicing law, the jacket pocket on every one of his suits used to be torn from getting caught on a parking meter where he'd be leaning up while talking with the boys...
...Squaw Hill, in the three-story, columned gubernatorial mansion, Mike pursues a rollicking, split-second family life. The eight little 'itches have to be undressed in assembly-line fashion for their showers; the mansion's third floor is blocked off ("We're always losing Dominic," says Matilda); Band-aids, next to food and clothing, are the big expense, what with the children falling downstairs or sliding too fast down the bannisters, or falling off the gubernatorial totem pole that stands outside. After dinner and a session of TV-watching, church-going Roman Catholic Mike sings out: "Prayers...