Word: peons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mhyrum as Roderigo, "the peon's amigo," Nick Benton as Roxanne Rye, and Palmer Dixon's leering portrayal of Fingers Spumoni carry the scenes where the script itself might not sustain a non-musical interlude; but it remained for Fred Gwynne, cast as Pablo the Peon, to stop the show...
Clement B. Wood Jr. '47, ex-Lampoon president and winner of last year's Dana Reed prize for undergraduate writing, has teamed with John J. Carroll '49 to write the book and lyrics for this year's Hasty Pudding Club show, tentatively entitled "Forever Peon." Anthony Bonner '49 will provide the music for the production, which opens March 11 at the Hasty Pudding clubhouse...
Charles Blake, who played in "This is the Army" in 1946 and who has specialized in directing amateur shows, will direct and produce "Forever Peon." No dance director or costumer has been named as yet, since casting does not start until the spring term...
Next to the ox that pulls his plow, the Mexican peon's most valued possession is his wistful little burro. Last week, the sturdy little beast that carries the nation's backland freight, causes many of its automobile accidents, adorns its literature and enriches its profanity, supplied the theme for the song leading Mexico's hit parade. It was called My Little Burro Doesn't Want to Go, and it was written by a young man named Ventura Romero who had never ridden a burro in his life...
...even the peon himself, jolting along on the burro's poop deck, muttered...