Word: moreland
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have been able to learn my lines in this play unless every one of them meant something definite to me. . . .Nevertheless, I still consider myself a Shakespeare man" (a highly acclaimed Hamlet, he will be the Othello at next summer's American Shakespeare Festival at Stratford, Connecticut). Mantan Moreland (Gogo), to get a laugh, pulled the Bert Lahr trick of quipping, "I speak my lines, but I don't know what I'm saying." But just as Lahr in private has clear ideas about the play's meaning, I am sure Mr. Moreland does...
...acting and direction which this production displays is in every way superb, and very likely is the best work to come along this season. Each of the members of the all-Negro cast is an actor of unsurpassed stature. I am not in a position to compare Mantan Moreland with Bert Lahr, who played Estragon in the original American production, but it is difficult to imagine any performance which embodies slapstick drollery and technical subtlety to a higher degree of perfection. Earle Hyman as the more intelligent Valdimir suggests just the right amount of dignity, and Rex Ingram makes...
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...LIEUT. JOSEPH E. MORELAND of Oil Hill, Kans.: "Interrogated for over 1,800 hours. He observed Soviet personnel guiding the interrogations. He was taken to Mukden . . . tried twice for refusing to confess germ warfare. The first trial ended in a sentence to a corrective labor camp-and a sentence of execution against his daughter in the U.S. At all times he was in solitary confinement...