Word: vic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...scholarship to the school at the Old Vic, followed that with four kick-about years in various rep companies. "It was rehearse all morning," she remembers, "ride the bus in the afternoon, help put up the sets, iron your own costume, slip out for a meal, give a performance, and ride the bus home at 2 a.m. That was our whole life, and it's all I wanted. I needed it. Behind five wigs and four noses, as in the Old Vic parts, it was fine. But to show myself as I am-I simply wasn't equipped...
...Washington, D.C.'s tiny Gallaudet College last year mimed Othello in sign language. Next year tribesmen in Southern Rhodesia will play Macbeth costumed as Zulu warriors in animal tails and feathers. As for his native England, the playwright's blessed plot resounds with Shakespeare, from the Old Vic to Regents Park, where the lyrics of The Tempest boom through stereophonic loudspeakers suspended from the trees...
...through their pores in involuntary shudders. They are nonetheless eager to try the roles that all agree are the touchstones of an actor's skill and imagination. What is needed is the continuity of acting tradition that comes mainly through repertory groups such as England's Old Vic; Director Tyrone Guthrie has just received a $400,000 foundation grant to start such a group in Minneapolis...
With Venetian Way a 6-1 choice, Owner Isaac Blumberg, 72, a retired Illinois machine-tool manufacturer, nursed a double bourbon and pessimistically recalled 1958 when his Lincoln Road finished second to Tim Tam in both the Derby and the Preakness. Down in the paddock, Trainer Vic Sovinski gave Hartack instructions: "You ought to be third or fourth going into the clubhouse turn, but lay back until the backstretch. Then go when you see your spot...
...that the marriage had gone bad because she had been too much a "mother" to Lee. Already getting $2,500 monthly in temporary alimony, Amateur Artist Lamarr settled for roughly $500,000 of Lee's cash and oil holdings - making her more susceptible than ever to becoming the vic tim of the classically defined Hollywood heel: "The kind of man who would marry Hedy Lamarr for her money...