Word: weisgal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Professor Elliott referred to the Jews and Arabs as "merely pawns." The Arab nation may be the oawns of British policy and Angle-American oil interests. The Jews were pawns of Hitler, not of Karl Marx. Mendy Weisgal '45, 2G. Vice-Chairman, Harvard Zionist Society
...figure who must carry the tragic implications of the play, Mendy Weisgal put an evening of intense effort into the part of Hotspur but gave at best an uneven performance. Weisgal's gestures were artificial, he threw away many of his lines--and much of the motivation of the plot, for those who didn't know it--and added touches of external heightening in places where they destroyed the illusion of the performance. But in certain scenes--the early letter scene, for example--he rose to a distinctly superior level...
...five leads were cast during one-week tryouts last April, and have been spending summer months digesting Shakespearian dialogue. They are Bryant N. Haliday '49 as Henry, Prince of Wales; Kilty as Falstaff; Mendy Weisgal '45 2G as Hotspur; Thayer David as King Henry the Fourth; and Robert L. Wechsler '49 as the Earl of Worcester...
...Just like a Hymarx," mused Veterans Theater Workshop official Mendy Weisgal when he heard that England's famed "Old Vic" had agreed to send the local group its own prompt script of Henry...
Production preliminaries for the VTW presentation of the play, scheduled for early December in Sanders Theatre, will begin sometime next week. There are still plenty of parts available as well as openings in the technical assistant department, Weisgal announced...