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...Dunster cast does the same. In fact, leads Selene Tompsett and Craig Hollander vaguely resemble Audrey Hepburn and Rex Harrison. The problem with trying to produce a show that mimicks a movie or even a Broadway production is obvious: students on a dining hall stage cannot hope to capture entirely the precision of professional performers. They end up looking silly...
Unconventional leads may have sparked the production, even if the supporting cast sagged. But both Henry Higgins (Hollander) and Eliza Doolittle (Tompsett) turn in standardized and mediocre performances. Tompsett's voice is low and well-modulated with a slight Southern softening, and though she tries to shrill, her slummy "Garn..." resonates with upper-class tonality. You can't make a sow's ear out of a silk purse. Only in scenes when Eliza is supposed to be furious with Higgins does Tompsett cast of her placid demeanor, and then she sizzles: her eyes splash cyanide when she seethes, "Just...
...bohemian professor must remain oblivious to women. Hollander conveys that imperturbability, if somewhat blandly in the first few scenes. His solos, designed for enunciators rather than singers, display his rhetorical skills admirably. Unfortunately, the orchestra, even at low volume, drowns out about one-fourth of his and Tompsett's lyrics...
...Ralph Tompsett. spokesman for Dallas' Baylor University Medical Center, said that Mister Sam tolerated the first big doses well, and had no nausea. A midweek bout of pneumonia interrupted the treatment, but Rayburn rallied quickly. After that he was given FUDR (5-fluoro-2'-deoxyuridine), which is a close chemical kin of 5-fluorouracil and works the same...
Questions. As Dr. Tompsett was careful to point out in London, bacilli can still be found in most patients with TB of the lungs after months of isoniazid treatment. So there is no reason to believe that the drug can really wipe out the disease. Nobody knows how long the drug can be given at a stretch, or how soon its effects may wear off after it is withdrawn...