Word: tilford
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hellman's play depicts the plight of two schoolteachers, Martha Dobie (Jenny Cornuelle) and Karen Wright (Becky Stone), whose school for girls is threatened by the spitefulness of a spoiled, self-centered child who defies the women's sincere efforts to understand her resentment. When the child, Mary Tilford (Patrice Dabrowski), receives a just punishment for a series of rule infractions, she fabricates a tale that the schoolteachers are lesbians, convincing her grandmother (Cynthis Weinrich) to withdraw her and the other girls from the school. The teachers countersuit for slander fails, in part because Martha's aunt (Amy Aquino) refuses...
...puppets, at least they do so in Chris Kaseta's appropriate, well-designed set. The play opens on a warm, paneled schoolroom/livingroom, stuffed with comfortable chairs. Its large barnlike double doors and grainy wood evoke the farmland surrounding the girls' school. When the scene changes to the wealthy Mrs. Tilford's home, the ice blue and green furnishings set the tone of chilly splendor...
...Tilford Gaines, chief economist of Manhattan's Manufacturers Hanover Trust Co., predicts that rising food prices will keep living costs rising at a double-digit rate for the rest of the year, though he sees the pace slackening from close to 13% currently to about 10% by December. Says Gaines: "Except for 1946 and 1920, 1974 will probably prove to be the worst year in our history for consumer inflation...
...consequence of the rush into bonds is that rates on long-term corporate issues have rebounded from a January low of 6.8% to about 7½%. The extra cost deters few companies. "They borrow when they need it, and not because the rates are down," says Economist Tilford Gaines, of New York's Manufacturers Hanover Trust Bank...