Word: nubi
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Richard T. Button '52 plays Nubi, a native maidservant, and Larry A. Hansen '51, David T. Owsley '51, and James P. Wood '51 complete the cast...
Maney's most successful stunt was for The Squall, which opened as a floperoo. A line in the play ran "Nubi bad girl, Nubi stay." Reviewing The Squall in the old Life, Robert Benchley retched: "Nubi stay, Benchley go." Quickly Maney hoisted big ads reading: "See the play that made a streetwalker of Robert Benchley." The Squall ran over a year...
...drenching rain, comes the gypsy Nubi. And as she comes into the happy Mendez household, happiness goes out the window. For father, son and serving man in that happy Spanish household find that there is a certain something about Nubi that,--well, disturbs them. It takes one act of this play to get the said Nubi onto the stage, and two more before purity, mother love, jealousy and much more rout...
...worth. In the piece at hand she plays the mother, and needless to say does an excellent bit. But it is a far from suitable part. The rest of the cast is passable, the playing of the son Juan by Mervin Williams, and the portrayal of the red-hot Nubi by Suzanne Caubaye being most worthy of mention...
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