Word: pluming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...swordsmen are 7-2 for the season, but most of the wins have come at the expense of third-rate teams. The brightest plume in the Crimson fencing cap this year has been the 17-10 creaming of C.C.N.Y. Harvard lost to powers N.Y.U., 18 to 9, and Columbia...
...ADVENTURES UNDER GROUND, by the Rev. C. L. Dodgson. The Mad Hatter, Cheshire Cat, Dormouse and Ugly Duchess may be absent in the original version of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, but this charming facsimile of the preliminary manuscript is laced with Dodgson's (nom de plume: Lewis Carroll) own penmanship and fanciful, spidery sketches of White Rabbit, Mock Turtle and Alice as he first conceived them...
...ADVENTURES UNDER GROUND, by the Rev. C. L. Dodgson. The Mad Hatter, Cheshire Cat, Dormouse and Ugly Duchess may be absent in the original version of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, but this charming facsimile of the preliminary manuscript is laced with Dodgson's (nom de plume: Lewis Carroll) own penmanship and fanciful, spidery sketches of White Rabbit, Mock Turtle and Alice as he first conceived them...
There is a great deal of good acting in the production, but none to measure up to Leonard Baker's exceptionally tasteful Plume. There-are a thousand temptations in this role; Baker is on stage almost constantly and is free to enlist the audience's sympathy with a little skillful hamming if he wants to. It is a great credit to him that he is restrained enough to keep from scene-stealing, but energetic enough to be constantly interesting. It is his job to hold the play together and that he does very well...
...Bramhall and Marjorie Lerstrom drew the two roles most chopped up by the crossfire between Brecht and Farquahr. Farquahr's Worthy is an amorous country gentleman of leisure and a bit of a buffoon; Brecht's is a shoe merchant who plans to sell his boots to the platoon Plume recruits, and his mental temperature oscillates between extremet canniness and extreme romanticism. Bramhall might have made the role gell a bit better by treating some of Worthy's protestations as posturing. Miss Lerstrom faces the same problem with Melinda and resolves it by throwing herself vigorously into the lady...