Word: performances
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...play has its merits-some whale-boned wit, metaphysical elegances, aphoristic insights. But Fry is more successful using life as a gymnasium than as a laboratory; theatrically, he is in less danger on a trapeze than on terra firma. He can make words perform all kinds of tricks, but not yet pulse with truth. Shaw, too, loved to send up rhetorical Roman candles. but Shaw's, unlike Fry's, sometimes came down hand grenades...
...program is a success, future major productions as well as New Theater Workshop plays will be televised ever WGBH-TV after the station starts regular broadcasts in May. "We will be among the first college dramatic clubs to perform on television," poppy said...
Aaron also mentioned the possibility of starting a television actor's laboratory for those scheduled to perform in the plays. "Acting in TV is quite different from the stage," he said, "and our members would have to become thoroughly acquainted with the different techniques required before we could put on a successful television show...
Another Breland project is to reform U.S. zoos. Breland believes that zoo animals should be trained to perform instinctive acts when given a triggering signal. In a Breland-type zoo, the spectator could put a nickel in a slot if he wanted to see the monkeys dance or the hippo plunge into his pool. For a larger coin, a quarter perhaps, he might see a lion charge out of a thicket and leap with hideous roars on a simulated gazelle...
...Duosipaars, 12 singers, Freshman Glee Club soloist Frederick Brozer. William D. Chapple and Richard H. Zaffron, guitarists and folk singers, and record mimics David K. Mosher and Howard D. Wadsworth will perform...