Word: roose
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Greville had several love affairs and one illegitimate child, but compared with Pepys, Bachelor Greville was a veritable monk. It is easy to see why his love affairs were few and brief. After keeping a beautiful, well-mannered mistress at Lord Wharncliffe's villa for seven weeks ("Henry de...
"Root-Pitney" members who will divide the winner's check are W. Parmer Fuller and Gerald M. Trautman, speakers; and Clarence M. Condon, Bernard E. Drape, Robert S. Fougner, Leslie L. Roos Malcolm I. Ruddock, and Arthur L. Webber, all of whom worked on the brief.
As Mr. Turney tells the story, the priest Calchas (Harry Irvine) is clamoring for a ''holy war" to rescue divine Helen from Troy, but the gods will not let Troyward winds blow until the unclean house of Atreus is purged by sacrifice. Iphigenia, daughter of Clytemnestra and Agamemnon...
Mr. Turney's studiously poetic dialog lacks the full-blooded majesty and thunder that would have enabled it to prevail against the magnificent settings of Jo Mielziner. And Actresses Mendelssohn and Roos, playing their parts like transplanted Lady Macbeths, reduce the play to the proportions of a family feud...
Tight Britches (by John Taintor Foote and Hubert Hayes; Laurence Rivers, Inc., producer) pries into the sexual problems of a handsome young North Carolina mountaineer (Shepperd Strudwick) whom neither God nor the girls can let alone. Off and on he turns down the prettiest wench (Joanna Roos) and the richest...