Word: towers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Stewart Chaney had dressed up the play with two colorful and pleasing sets depicting the tower of the Empire State Building and the apartment in which most of the action occurs. Director Otto Preminger's staging is on the whole adroit; it may may be picayune to point out that the dialogue near the end of the second act is somewhat monotonous...
...Players club in Manhattan staged a 70th birthday surprise party for their friend and noted wit, Franklin P. Adams Highlight of the evening: a special edition of "The Conning Tower," F.P.A.'s old newspaper column. The contributors included Edna Ferber, Louis Untermeyer, and the playwriting team of Howard Lindsay and Russel Grouse who sounded the keynote of the celebration...
...years Memorial Hall has towered over the University scene. It has taken many insults and never talked back. But the four gargoyles on the tower give an answer eloquently enough. Facing in each direction, they stick out their tongues in a defiant answer to all critics...
...Trotnyck, the janitor, compares the hall to Madison Square Garden: a different event each night. "But nothing really happens any more," he complains, "I always find couples petting in the dark corners on square dance nights, and several years ago some drunken Yalies crawled up the tower to steal the bell clapper, but it's nothing like the old days. The place is a little gloomy...
...happened in the middle of Sunday's carillon concert in the Lowell House tower. Gordon Campbell, House tutor, and recently appointed House bell-ringer, was working to a grand climax in one of his Muscovite bell symphonies. Suddenly, one of the chains securing the bells snapped. Campbell went on until another chain snapped. Then a third went, and more after that. A minute later, only three quarters of the 18 bells remained playable...