Word: moira
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Kilty '49 fashioned a show of amazing freshness and vitality. The most striking feature of this production was a complete stylistic consistency, which is the hardest virtue to achieve in a period piece like this. With one exception, every member of the cast down to the tripping maid (Moira Wylie '60) and whirl-wind butler (Robert Jordan '59) captured the proper unified style in both word and gesture...
...period piece like this. Surely this is partly due to the fact that most of the cast have been playing together now for several seasons, and have developed a sort of repertory-company feeling of ensemble. With one exception, every member of the cast down to the tripping maid (Moira Wylie '60) and whirlwind butler (Robert Jordan '59) capture the proper unified style in both word and gesture...
...even nicer to have Moira Wylie around. Miss Wylie plays an extravagantly dissolute floozie who somehow finds herself in Berlin in 1930, singing for her supper and doing other things for her midnight snack. Sally Bowles is a lady, or used to be; her sophistication is only an extreme from of naivete. Miss Wylie has a devastating slink and drawl for her comedy scenes, and a very effective, throaty half-sob for the serious ones. She is lovable and ridiculous and pleasantly exasperating all at once, in exactly the right proportions. Sally is a difficult role but a juicy...
...Liberals, who decided to enter the lists with a candidate of their own. He was Ludovic Kennedy, 38, Eton and Oxford, lecturer on current affairs and latterly a widely known television commentator. Kennedy cut a wide swathe through Rochdale, helped mightily by a glamorous fellow campaigner, his ballerina wife Moira Shearer...
...prettiest campaigners in British politics, twinkle-toed Cinemorsel Moira (The Red Shoes) Shearer, made her maiden speech in Rochdale, England, was rewarded with such hearty applause that she predicted: "I'll be Prime Minister yet!" But Ballerina Shearer plugged for votes "as the candidate's wife and not as a political speaker." Her candidate: Writer and onetime TV Newscaster Ludovic Kennedy, standing for Parliament on the Liberal ticket...