Word: stoppering
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...gusto. He enjoys it himself, and certainly last night's audience did. John Rexine plays the old gentleman of Ephesus, Periplectomenus, naturally and well and George Mulhern gives a fine performance as a slave through whose agency the true lovers are reunited and the warrior disgraced. The real show-stopper is Joseph Dallet as a slightly tipsy slave. Brooks Emmons and Dorothes Reynolds do exceedingly well as women who look and act as if they knew what life were all about...
Married. Lisa Kirk, 23, singing show-stopper (Always True to You in My Fashion) of Cole Porter's smash Broadway musicomedy hit, Kiss Me, Kate; and Hollywood Tunesmith Robert (It Is Better to Be by Yourself) Wells, 26; he for the second time; in Manhattan...
...entrance of Frances Bavier in the last few minutes of "George and Margaret" is the damndest show-stopper I've seen. Tip-toeing on stage as the frightened and awkward new parlor main, Miss Bavier succeeded by pantomine in disrupting everything on both sides of the footlights for a few wonderful minutes of unbroken hilarity...
...building. ("People told me I was a fool to try it, but I said if I wanted to be diplomatic I wouldn't be a sculptor.") Among the most entertaining exhibits was a bulbous Woman-Shaped Vessel seated in a bird bath. Its head was a giant stopper, and Mitzi figured the body should be used for holding "something fruity-rum, I guess...
...last fall and which the President had then ignored. As for the rest of the President's program, such proposals as the long-range housing program would only force inflationary pressures even higher. Said Eccles: "It's like try ing to fill up the bathtub with the stopper...