Word: versions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...structure of the new Europe was beaten out against the anvil of Mendès-France's realities. He who had helped destroy a dream had made his fellow bargainers settle for his version of the possible. The dreams may have been necessary in the beginning, but the new-style, unsentimental diplomacy of Mendès-France seemed to be just right...
...skit that was notable for the expertness of Ginger's cockney accent. The second playlet, Still Life, co-starred Ginger with Britain's Trevor Howard, but it lacked the pathos of either the 1936 Broadway original (starring Noel Coward and the late Gertrude Lawrence) or the movie version, Brief Encounter. But in the third number, Shadow Play, Ginger was romantically believable in the touching dream sequence. Gloria Vanderbilt posed beautifully in the small part of Ginger's rival...
...Happy Medium," 108th annual version of the Hasty Pudding Theatrical, will not be given in New York this year, it was announced last night, even though it will be presented in four theatres outside Cambridge...
Probably no Communist will ever play the villain's role as sensationally as the late Lavrenty Beria of Moscow. But in Bucharest last week, Moscow's Rumanian satellites staged a highly professional road-show version of the melodrama, and the lead was played in fine style by Vasile Luca, a Hungarian from Transylvania who climbed from a locksmith's shop to a Communist education in Moscow and up to the posts of Deputy Premier, Finance Minister and No. 3 Red in postwar Rumania. Purged in 1952, Luca has since been in prison. Last week Bucharest announced that...
...program there was some singing of Harvard songs, Wintergreen and a Technicolor-Cinemascope-Stereophonic version of "Stars and Stripes Forever." When the program closed with "Fair Harvard," an audience, grateful for a wonderful, swinging evening, was again convinced that Harvard has the best band in the country...