Word: morgans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...whore to henpecker. Of all the cast they help most to keep the play from dragging. "I'm fast," says Miss Rosten engagingly, as Mae Rose Cottage. "You just wait. I'll sin till I blow up." But a few moments before, she was a garrulous, gossipy Mrs. Organ Morgan, and an almost lyric Rosic Probert ("Remember her./She is forgetting./The Earth which filled her mouth/Is vanishing from her"). And Miss Moses sings Polly Garter's song with all its appropriate plaintiveness. In other words, they both know how to read, and how to read Thomas...
...Babe, who had appeared with Morgan in "Caucasian Chalk Circle" earlier in the year, and John Casey assumed the leads. Their characters provide the film's continuity, as they stroll around Radcliffe and later along the bank of the Charles, hamming their way through all of the essentially unrelated scenes they stumble upon. All of the cast worked without pay. At Morgan's request they also signed a Model Release form waiving their rights to sue the producer for anything in the movie which might subject them to "ridicule, scandal, reproach, scorn and indignity...
...Morgan then completed casting for the various sketches: John Nathan, looking like the Wild Bull of the Pampas, in an old vaudeville bit set along the river bank; Dan Seltzer, a chalk-faced Death directly out of Bergman; Madeline Rosten, as a frowsy, hip-scratching housewife; Steve Aaron, who bests the Devil (Seltzer) in a game of Monopoly; and Jack Daniels, who doubled as technical director. There is also an unidentified couple making love near the John Weeks bridge...
...films provided Morgan with a 16 millimeter camera and some lighting equipment; Mother Nature was somewhat less generous, raining out half of the scheduled shootings; and MDC police were sometimes hard to shake...
...Morgan is showing "Three Giant Steps" at 8 p.m. and again at 9:30 tomorrow night in Eliot House and is negotiating with Masters in the hope that he may be permitted to screen it in the other Houses. Hopefully he will have success. Seeing Messrs. Nathan, Seltzer, Aaron, et al. prancing over Fresh Pond hill in the Dance of Death as the dusk of sunset closes in, is a vision...