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...Matilda's Trunk. The Battle of Belgrave Square proved a victory of sorts for the minicabs' cause. The spectacle of big taxis ganging up on a tiny minicab aroused Londoners' traditional sympathy for the underdog, as well as delight at the prospect of cheaper fares. Almost every one had a story about a rude old-style cabby who took him to his destination the long way round, or short-changed him, or passively watched as dear old Aunt Matilda wrestled with her steamer trunk. "That's the public for you," lamented a veteran cabby...
...Australians agree that Melbourne lies somewhere "behind the black stump" or, in current American, that it is a district of Squaresville. But Melbourne has its hipsters too, most notably a curvy, carrot-haired former choir singer named Diana Trask. Promoted from choir to nightclubs, Diana used to do Waltzing Matilda for visiting Americans. Discovered by Frank Sinatra and soon signed up by Columbia Records in New York, she has cut a series of briskly selling singles: Matilda, Long Ago Last Summer, Our Language of Love, I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry. Now, with her first album, titled Diana...
Malcolm Ticknor and Matilda Cole Ticknor '59 will star in the review, supported by Margot Walk, Dean Gitter, and Robert Silver '59. Choreography is by Lenore Friedland, Brandeis...
...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...