Word: roles
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dunster and Leverett, in recent television-versus-washing machine polls, both favored television. But Dunster, with a bulging House treasury, may also try out a washing machine. If it does so, it will take over Adams' role as the one-House experimenter. Adams was forced to abandon the idea last spring when its committee decided it would be too difficult to pay back a necessary $600 loan from the Student Council...
...Knox portrays the demented man as a fumbling, bewildered person rather than a maniacal killer. What in "The Closing Door" seems like underplaying by Mr. Knox, may be an authentic interpretation of a particular type of insanity, but it is not effective on the stage. Eva Condon, in the role of the Grandmother, also does a good acting...
...signer to outline in detail his relationship with any particular organization listed. This statement is then considered by a reviewing board which judges whether the activity is subversive or not. Obviously, no one will be expelled from the unit if he has not taken an active and supporting role in such an organization, in other words supporting the principles of the organization...
...announcing the gift Dean David said, "We are indeed grateful for this evidence of faith in the role of the Business School in our society. In view of the increasing need for scholarship and loan funds, particularly after government aid expires, such a gift is especially gratifying...
...casting of Flynn in the role of Soames and of Young in the part of Bossiney hurt this film before the first reel was shot. Flynn is not equipped to portray a stodgy, meticulous Englishman; and Young was hopelessly awkward as the eccentric, dynamic architect. Little wonder that Miss Garson couldn't warm up to her task opposite two such misfits. Only Pidgeon, who played Young Jolyon, carried out his assignment satisfactorily. But he appeared too seldom to redeem the incongruity of the other characters...