Word: pumpkins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pumpkin got bruised, the white mice grew too fast and had to be replaced, and the director did not dare use a real coach-and-four because Cinderella and most others in the cast were afraid of horses. Otherwise, rehearsals were proceeding pleasantly in a big Manhattan TV studio where Broadway Showmakers Rodgers and Hammerstein and a cast of stars are preparing a lavish musical version of Cinderella. For a close peek at how a TV spectacular is put together, see TV & RADIO, Rear View...
...coffee-stained script books. Six white mice napped in a bird cage in the temporary quiet of Cinderella's kitchen. "They've grown so fast during rehearsal," a prop man said, "that we'll have to get new ones for the show." A bruised plaster pumpkin sat in front of flat No. 15A, and behind it a disheveled stagehand snoozed. Two workmen sipped tea on the set of the King and Queen's dressing room, while in the orchestra area the King and Queen (Howard Lindsay and Dorothy Stickney) munched sandwiches. On the far corner...
Baker hmself was highly pleased with The Promised Land and succeeding productions, two of which, The Scarecrow and Peter, Peter Pumpkin Eater were performed on Broadway, the first by a professional company, the second by the HDC itself. The initial guiding light of the Club wrote in 1917 that the group's achievement was "remarkable." He asserted that the production of original plays had not hampered the organization, as some had first thought it would, but "from the beginning the Harvard Dramatic Club has shown clearly . . . that college undergraduates can give original plays to a mixed audience and with real...
...entirely personal matter. The Cliffite receives calls through the dorm bell system, an elaborate array of buzzers, wires, and little colored lights, which operate daily from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. and slightly later on Sundays and holidays. After hours, the bell desk turns into a pumpkin, and the Radcliffe Cinderella, unless she has a private phone, is virtually cut off from the outside world...
...football season's on the wane, December doth approach, The frost is on the pumpkin And the blast is on the coach...