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...Gene Gant, Tony seems almost to be playing himself. Like Gene, he is introspective and quietly intense. His long (6 ft. 2 in.), lean frame is close enough to the gangling scarecrow that was the young Thomas Wolfe, and he still looks like a teenager. Remembers Tony: "I was a kid in high school when I first started to read Wolfe, and right away I identified myself with Gene...
Baker hmself was highly pleased with The Promised Land and succeeding productions, two of which, The Scarecrow and Peter, Peter Pumpkin Eater were performed on Broadway, the first by a professional company, the second by the HDC itself. The initial guiding light of the Club wrote in 1917 that the group's achievement was "remarkable." He asserted that the production of original plays had not hampered the organization, as some had first thought it would, but "from the beginning the Harvard Dramatic Club has shown clearly . . . that college undergraduates can give original plays to a mixed audience and with real...
...legislate as well as to annul laws because of alleged violation of the Constitution has in the past caused Congress to reverse decisions of that court many times. No wonder Jefferson predicted that we will be governed by a judicial oligarchy with the threat of impeachment a mere scarecrow...
Betsy Nelson, as Dorothy, must separate her emotions from the foolishness of her clown-friends, and in not displaying much sympathy she does this only to a limited extent. The Scarecrow, Tin Woodman, and Lion, as played by John Bernard, Fred Morehouse, and John Fenn, have a lot more fun and are very successful. Marc Brugnoni's excellent Wizard has a winsomeness and honesty which is very appealing. He, Fenn, and Anne Adams, in the dubious role of the Good Witch, turn in the happiest performances in pleasant, sprightly show...
...Chemical Scarecrow. To keep birds off window sills, ledges, etc., National Bird Control Laboratories of Skokie, Ill. put on the market a chemical in an aerosol container. The chemical, harmless to people and birds, will keep birds off any surface it is sprayed on. Price...