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...faces, new teams, new cities, new stadiums -- and we've had the reassuring continuity supplied by the old pros reaching for records: Stand Musial, Warren Spahn, Early Wynn, and Robin Roberts...

Author: By Stephen C. Rogers, | Title: Baseball Season: One of the Greats | 8/9/1962 | See Source »

...Montmartres Montmartre, all very pleasantly. The excellent staging of director Alan J. Levitt--who, by the way, is obviously well acquainted with the French touch--overcomes the problem of space, which could be acute if any of his fine company were claustrophobic. And it is a fine company. Robin Ramsay, as La Brige in Article 330, is a lithe-limbed and limber-tongued Australian who gives the part a cockney gusto which it lacks in the original, improving from time to time on Professor Barzun's stiffish translation and livening it up with sparks of "business" of which Courteline would...

Author: By Norman R. Shapiro, | Title: Boubouroche | 8/6/1962 | See Source »

Ardentown, Del., Robin Hood Theater: James Agee's All the Way Home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema, Television, Theater, Books: Jul. 20, 1962 | 7/20/1962 | See Source »

Clitandre's servant Lubin is played by Robin Ramsay quite legitimately as a Harlequin, complete with the customary white-face and diamond-patch costume. Making frequent use of a real slapstick in hand, he cavorts about with unflagging athleticism, and also functions as the troupe's impresario. With matching costume, Susan Baldwin makes his opposite number, Angelique's servant Claudine, into a sort of Colombine: she needs to convey more of the character's cleverness...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: Moliere's 'Dandin' | 7/9/1962 | See Source »

...London's gilded youth. Rosa smiled benignly on their amours, and could always provide a trusted young guardsman or undergraduate with a compliant partner. "All luxuries are overused," she said, "but sexual immorality is sometimes the least dangerous." She was also famed as hotel-dom's Robin Hood, from her habit of loading penurious guests' bills onto the richest resident, who for years was a meek, abstemious millionaire she called Froggy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Great Britain: Requiem for Rosa's | 6/29/1962 | See Source »

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