Word: morey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Other would-be Pagliacci jumped at the idea. Minerva Pious, weary of Pansy Nussbaum, was a creditable Lady Macbeth. Ezra Stone, still unhappily and profitably playing Henry Aldrich at 30, would try Shylock. Jack Pearl would try King Lear; Morey Amsterdam was set to do Cyrano. Henry Morgan agreed to do a show, but couldn't decide on a role: "Anything but Shakespeare . . . I told them to get me something where a guy goes crazy. With a little nudge I can go out of my mind quite easily...
...when he was six months old. Then the birds gave him the runaround. ... He wasn't going to have that happen again. The open season of 1946 arrived, with Red a year older and a bit wiser, but still a pup. The opening day my three partners, Stan, Morey, Jim and myself gave...
Each man had to wait his turn to come in on the flush. Morey, Jim, and I each had our turn and got our birds. It was Stan's turn next, which turned out to be Red's. Remembering the bad time the birds had given him last year, and by studying each bird he ran to cover and by watching how each one acted, he doped out a way to catch the bird in flight. He also found that if he got in a certain position he could make that bird come out where he wanted...
...destroyer is sunk in the Pacific, but Morey reaches an island held by a small U.S. and native guerrilla group. He has a chance to be sent home on a submarine; but having found new faith in the rugged decency of simple men, he begs to stay on and fight by their side. By their side he dies fighting...
...much more immediately, of course, it is the story of Morey Vinion. All this is a good deal for one play. That is probably why it gives the effect of two or three plays. It is panoramic but unfocused...