Word: thane
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time to talk of weddings." Later, however, he consented. The wedding was celebrated with a raid on a village, feasting, singing and dancing. Marianthi, of course, did not dance, but she was moved by the strains of her favorite song: "Ossa sidera o Truman na rixi nikitis thane panto, o laos" (However much iron Truman throws in, the people will always be victorious...
...kechsa nge thane hakokimindu (I do not understand his talk...
...young actress, gives the best performance in the show, looking so lovely that, by Hollywood standards, she wouldn't have to act at all. John Rand '43 plays her amusingly inarticulate suitor. When these two are on the stage, the play is what Behrman intended it to be. Adele Thane does well in a thankless part, and the setting is unusually effective...
...amateur cast would find its talents inhibited by repeated mechanical difficulties, and a heavy load falls upon the Playhouse's experienced wheelhorses. Burt French, Katherine Whitfield, Carol Wheeler, and John Rand '43 support the double triangle around which the plot moves. Adele Thane as a scatterbrain middle-aged wife is glaringly miscast; she parboils the comic two thirds of her part and convincingly portrays a dramatic third act. Make-up difficulties hamper Robert Bastille'43, for his audience cannot forget that they see a Harvard man disguised as a sexagenarian...
...plot, involving a maze of confused love relationships, centers about the well-meaning female scatterbrain whom we knew in Kaufman-Connoly as Dulcy. It was a role tailor-made for Billie Burke, who acted it in the original version, but Joy Street's Adele Thane plays Laura with a vitality that is not beyond compare...