Word: playing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There has been quite a conglomeration of talent at the Colonial for the past two weeks. Robert Anderson, author of Tea and Sympathy, has written a play called Silent Night, Lonely Night, in which two accomplished professionals, Henry Fonda and Barbara Bel Geddes, star. Peter Glenville has turned his considerable talents toward directing this production, and Jo Mielziner and Theoni V. Aldredge handle lighting and costuming...
...play is deceptively advertised as the story of two lonely strangers who meet in a New England town on Christmas Eve. Well, Katherine, acted by Miss Bel Geddes, is lonely, but she has a husband in London. And John, played by Fonda, has a wife in the local sanitarium...
Miss Bel Geddes and Fonda turn in fairly wooden performances, but there is not much they can do with a script that requires them to mouth such gems as, "God, you're sweet" The minor parts are not badly done, but this is essentially a two-person play. And that includes the audience...
...first downs to its opponents' 121. This was Harvard's first winning season since 1954 and also the Crimson's first Big Three title since that year; 1959 also marked the first time Harvard has finished in the first division since the Ivy League began round-robin play three years...
...tackles, if Bob Pillsbury's head injury does not keep him from play next year, the varsity will have three of the League's finest in Pillsbury, Eric Nelson and Darwin Wile. Mike Sheridan and Bill Greelish give the Crimson uncommon depth at this position...