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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...quiet, brooding force of Robert Evans acted as a good foil for Mephistopheles, and Evans handled his long monologue in the first act with superb skill. Margaret, as played by Frances Sternhagen, was a triumph of sincerity. The difficulty of the Mephistopheles role is that the devil has a thousand faces, all of which he plays to the hilt. In a way Margaret's part is even more challenging, for she must show a great development of character. To say that she convinces is praise enough...
...Francisco's Standard Building Co.. which has handled several thousand trade-in deals, sends appraisers to the prospective buyer's old house, tries to offer a fair market price. Once the deal goes through, Standard modernizes the trade-in, gives it a fresh coat of paint, then sells it. Standard expects little profit on the old house, makes its money on the new ones it sells...
Back to the Boards. The Harrisons got out of Hollywood in a hurry. Luckily, Harrison had already signed to play Henry VIII in a Broadway production of Maxwell Anderson's Anne of the Thousand Days. He flung his skinny frame into the heavily padded king's role so frantically that once during rehearsals he had to be hospitalized. An X ray showed his stomach clenched into fist-size; Harrison claims the hospital is still displaying the plates as an example of what nervous tension...
...Department of International Justice and Goodwill, special adviser to the U.S. delegation at the founding (1945) of the United Nations in San Francisco, onetime (1934-49) popular radio commentator (NBC's Religion in the News) and sometime author (A Christian Global Strategy); of a heart attack; in Thousand Island Park...
...greater confraternity of science, the watchword at Springdale is cooperation. New ideas and findings are interchanged within our own laboratories, among our printing and paper suppliers and throughout the entire industry. More than a thousand visitors a year from the graphic arts call at Springdale, some to see work in progress, others to ask questions and discuss mutual problems. "Anyone who taps on our door gets in−they all bring us ideas," says Research Director Roswell ("Bud") Fisher...