Word: ve
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...constitutes good theatre--even though he lets slip some clumsy moments in the first act bridge scene. Stage Manager Hildon Cooper probably has budget troubles, but he relies on simplicity for his effectiveness. These stock productions are always a bit rough and sometimes they are even crude, but they've got something more than finish: the proper attitude toward the theatre...
...form all those who care to go up, but Captain Tom Winship of the ski team did not care to make any predictions. "Tommy Thomas, Harry Hollmeyer, and a transfer from Middlebury, Lloyd Butterfield, have a pretty good chance. There seem to be a lot of good Freshmen who've had European experience, but every place on the team is open...
...wise citizen of Paris wants to know what Hitler and Stalin are thinking, what will be the next fantastic episode in an improbable war, he reads what Geneviéve Tabouis has to say in L'Oeuvre, then waits for the exact opposite to happen. For Tabouis is one of the most readable and unreliable reporters of secret political maneuvers, behind-the-scenes diplomacy in all Europe...
Known variously to Parisians as "Aunt Geneviéve," "the Pythoness," sometimes "the wastepaper basket of Europe," Tabouis in private life is the wife of an obscure radio executive, mother of two grown children. In the house of her uncle Jules Cambon, onetime French Ambassador to Berlin, she acquired a taste for the vague generalities of political conversation. After the war she took to visiting sessions of the League of Nations, writing chatty letters to her uncle from Geneva...
Week before he reopened his uncut Hamlet on Broadway, British Actor Maurice Evans was asked: "Who is the best Hamlet you've ever seen?" Prompt Evans retort: "I haven't got any mirrors...