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Belinda's exertions are not enough to save the show, or to keep theatrical institution Selsdon Mowbray on the wagon. Selsdon is the old dog who keeps a step ahead of the company, despite his intermittent deafness and propensity for napping. Ian Lithgow as Selsdon is yet another solid cast member as the troupe's elderly bane and balm. His Selsdon is undeniably aged, while carrying the confidence of endless theatrical experience on his stooped shoulders...
...Idle Hours (1895), Harry Siddons Mowbray. The title says...
...tails and pledging $100,000 of Silverado's money to the Denver Symphony," recalls an associate. Chuck Henning, former executive director of the Colorado Savings & Loan League, notes that "Wise was image-conscious and was going through all the proper steps; he was close to ((federal regulator)) Kermit Mowbray, head of the Home Loan Bank Board in Topeka, and everybody figured he was being groomed to become president of the U.S. League of Savings and Loan Institutions...
...David Paul, Colorado's financial-services regulator, told a congressional panel, "Silverado spared no expense to convince the regulators of their prudence." Paul said Silverado had brought "enormous management, consulting, accounting and legal resources to bear to rebut regulators' concerns." And the fast-talking Wise had the ear of Mowbray, the chief regulator in Topeka, who seemed to give Silverado the benefit of every doubt...
Inexplicably, Washington officials declined to go along. Mowbray's Topeka office relayed a message back to the Colorado regulators: hold off for a while. The day after George Bush was elected, the Topeka office started proceedings to shut down Silverado. The glaring coincidence has never been officially explained. Mowbray has said that he had received a phone call "from Washington" requesting the Silverado delay. He claims that he cannot remember who called...