Word: ward
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Miss Johnson's The Ward for the Criminally Insane lacks the form and texture of drama. Rather than a play, it is a clever idea surrounded by dialogue that, expanded and given direction, might have become first rate writing. As it stands, it is a bit disappointing. Miss Johnson, instead of wrestling with such problems of construction as how to run some line of interest through her conversations, is content to let her sketch meander from its beginning to its end. Never seeming to head anywhere, it just wanders, then stops, building toward nothing in particular...
Walter Lithgow is director of The Knife and has done an excellent job of interpreting the play. The stage business that is his province is expertly handled to further Hal Scott's portrayal. Richard Smithies has less luck with Ward, and is unable to work out some of the lapses in the script. Despite their few defects the plays are quite worth seeing, and today's house deserves to be full...
Tonight's game will not only be Wilson's first league game, but it will also be the first league game for Stan Ward, the Bruins' new coach. He is replacing Bob Morris who led Brown to a 13-11 record last year...
...Ward will probably start Tooley, Bill Arnold, Ed Kincave, Bob Popp, and Ron Malkiewicz. All these five are seniors with Arnold the tallest...
...York Stock Exchange, the good news caused a crisis of sorts. There were so many orders to buy Ward stock-and none to sell-that trading in the stock had to be suspended for more than 30 minutes. When it was resumed, the price...