Word: scandalizes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...real rehabilitation program, and 3) the facilities were pitifully inadequate. If the reformatory looked that bad on a guided tour, reasoned Addington, what must it be like when not tidied up for inspection? By last week Addington's answers in the New Mexican had created a statewide scandal...
...whether or not he had written it. Meanwhile, the pressure was too much for Superintendent Miller: he resigned. But the New Mexican was far from satisfied. It planned to carry on its battle, hoped to persuade incoming Governor John F. Simms Jr. to start a state investigation of the scandal...
...production of the HDC, as you might expect, lies somewhere in between. Its School for Scandal is more than funny. But in this new interpretation, Sheridan's acidity has been neutralized and while several scenes take on an agreeable mellowness, the play suffers. Director Edward Golden, evidently sensing that his most valuable property was Claire Scott's Lady Teazle, has emphasized the true warmth between that lady and her husband from the very beginning. Miss Scott has the ability of making Sheridan's most insulting lines seem a prologue to tenderness. Her Charm alone makes those exchanges between the elevated...
...wholesale slandering, the production looks to Elinor Fuchs as Mrs. Candour. Looking like a malignant Bea Lillie, Miss Fuchs deals in double-dealing, and very adroitly. Andre Gregory, as the hypocritical Joseph Surface, matches Miss Fuchs' high standard of lowness and holds his own in the fast company of Scandal's College...
...setting (John Ratte) and costumes and wigs (Lesile Van Zandt and Helen Gardiner) set the comic tone for a production that rarely slows down. By judiciously picking School for Scandal, the HDC presents a show which can hardly fail to please. Sheridan may have been more entertaining in past productions; the HDC rarely...