Word: riley
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Home Folks President Mary E. Riley said that the complaints have been resolved and that the Atty, General's office "has nothing to do with us. There is nothing in the wind for Home Folks...
Manager Peter Riley admits that D'Oyly Carte must modernize if it is to be revived, although any tinkering with tradition has always brought roars from the faithful. The "company's productions in recent years have seemed static, preserved in amber, cluttered with the gestures and mannerisms of venerated ghosts. There has been too much reverent looking backward to the epochal moment in 1875 when Richard D'Oyly Carte induced the highly successful playwright William Schwenck Gilbert to write the libretto that became...
...Central Park and on Broadway. The Broadway production is still running, and the road company is drawing cheers in Chicago. Ronstadt and the rest are filming Pirates in London, and a British stage cast will open the Papp production at the Drury Lane Theater there in May. Riley, who saw Pirates in Central Park and thought it "absolutely marvelous," has reason to hope that Londoners will endorse the stage show. A benefactor gave the faltering troupe .?150,000 to invest in Papp's London Pirates, and the profits, if any, will be used to resuscitate D'Oyly Carte...
...when Jack Riley, coach of the 1960 U.S. Olympic Hockey Team, realized two weeks before the Opening Ceremonies that his Western-led squad needed help, he called Cambridge and asked for Billy and Bobby Cleary...
...hell was he?" aspect in which Waters' complex character is explored. Waters has tried to scour himself to whiteness through discipline and excellence. He is a martinet who addresses his recruits as "shiftless lazy niggers" and hounds one guitar-strumming vagabond singer, sweetly played by Larry Riley, to his death. "They ought to work you niggers till your legs fall off," he screams at his charges, meaning "snap to and measure up," the one-line basic English catechism of the U.S. regular Army sergeant. Waters does not hate his men. He simply, heartrendingly, knows that a black may snap...