Word: superbeings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lobbyist Supreme. At 29, Sproul became comptroller, making him business manager of the university's campuses and its vast real-estate investments, and watchdog of Cal's interests at the state capital. As a business manager, Bob Sproul was efficient; as a legislative lobbyist, he was superb. Sometimes his methods annoyed Cal's crotchety old astronomer-president, William Wallace ("Eyebrows") Campbell. Once, hearing Sproul's booming voice ripping through the wall, President Campbell demanded to know what the comptroller was doing. Told that he was talking to Sacramento, the old man snapped: "Well, tell...
...combination of those superb scenes and a few other high points of dance specialist Kathryn Lee, however, with the usual quota of R & H songs beginning "When a fella ..." "It's a Darn Nice Campus," or "Come home, son, come home," is a little hard to take. The humor is in many places stale--the bewildered freshman was done last year in "Barefoot Boy," for example, and the childhood romance and the rocking chairs of the first set were new in "Our Town." Dead characters moon about the stage in a horrid reminder of "Carousel," and Rodger's brasses blast...
...hero, who completely lacks the real pathos of the Shavian creation. Emoting in the worst Shakespearean tradition, Evans draws plenty of laughs, and provides adequate surface entertainment; again a more solid treatment is called for. But Frances Rowe as the unscrupulous female, who pursues him to eventual triumph, is superb. Alternately voluptuous and indignant, she glides through her tasty part with complete competence, while the other players fit themselves into their entertaining roles with the necessary attention to proportion and restraint...
Gromyko lives in the 40-room mansion built by the late Ogden L. Mills at Woodbury, L.I. It is hidden behind high walls and 182 landscaped acres (including a superb 17th Century-style formal garden...
...setting is portrayed with the right amount of whimsy to suit the romantic tale, and the characters are people you can become interested is. For example, when the boy finally has to kill his pet, who has began to eat the crops now that he has grown up, the superb restraint of the parents makes the scene a really moving...