Word: ruth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Honest Exuberance. Wonderful Town is a simple musical fable about two venturesome Ohio sisters who invade Manhattan. One (Edith Adams) has a come-hither eye; the other (Rosalind Russell) has a go-to manner. Based on the humorous New Yorker short stories by Ruth McKenney, the show has had a long dramatic history: it was a 1940 Broadway hit as My Sister Eileen, starring this year's Oscar-winning Shirley Booth (see CINEMA). Rosalind made the movie version in 1942 and has played the role of Ruth in a dozen radio broadcasts. Though always successful, the show was never...
...More Year. The show's producer, Robert Fryer, says that no one but Rosalind Russell was ever considered for the part of Ruth in Wonderful Town. Joseph Fields, who wrote the book with Jerome Chodorov, has never met anyone as quick and bright in the theater: "Ros learned her part in two days and was tireless in rehearsals." She also worked herself into the flu in the New Haven tryout and went on opening night with a temperature of 103°. There was more trouble: a chorus boy had dropped her during the conga and in Boston...
...Class Night chairman are Gracia Taketa of Washington, D.C. and Bertram Hall, who was fourth with 74 votes and Louise Province of Chevy Chase, Md. and Briggs Hall, who was fifth with 53 votes. Ruth I. Abrams of Newton and Cabot Hall was next with 46 votes in the election...
...finalists include Ruth Abrams, of Cabot and Newton, Mass., Nancy Barrow, of Bertram and Manhasset, L.I., Gwen Brigham, of Moors and Montclair, N.J., and Holly Walker Butler, of Moors and Mendota...
...Ruth H. Joseph '54; Moors; Radio Radcliffe; "Drumbeats and Song...