Word: ruth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Married. Bill Holland, 40, husky Philadelphian who went from speed skating to auto racing, won this year's 500-mile classic at Indianapolis; and Ruth Dannie Asmussen, 22; in Miami...
...play chronicles a cruise taken by two old school friends (Ruth Ford and Ruth Matteson) with their dissimilar and discordant husbands, one a businessman (Arthur Margetson), the other a novelist (Tom Helmore). The wives shortly espy a tourist named Clutterbuck (Charles Campbell) on whom they had both, it transpires, bestowed their pre-matrimo-nial favors. Simultaneously the husbands discover they have both enjoyed the pre-matrimonial favors of Clutterbuck's wife (Claire Carleton). From there in, the play concentrates on how the six of them purr and perspire, recall the past and are moved to repeat it; on their...
...Glee Club will be directed by William F. Russell. Other artists include Jean-Pierre Barricelli '45, 3G, Howard Brown '51, Caterina Beer-Fornario, Ruth Gallagher '49, Anthony A. Giarraputo '50, Andrew M. Hoath '50, and Cynthia Lloyd '50, The program includes Renaissance metots and madrigals, 17th century music for the harp, Bach's Italian Concerto, da Vinci's Fluto Sonata, arias by Mozart, Puccini, Vordi and Donaudy, and a Fantasia Russa for piano composed for this occasion by Jean-Pierre Barricelli...
...Ruth's old-style direction, in the manner of a fast silent comedy, and Ruth Roman's homegirl charm as the love interest, help Berle make Always Leave Them Laughing a warm, unpretentiously funny comedy...
...difficult for even the best comedians to wrestle with such tired stuff as this. The authors--Garson Kanin, who wrote "Rat Race" and "Born Yesterday," and his wife Ruth Gordon--lacked their usual light touch on this...