Word: weisgal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...recent organizational meeting, Workshop members re-elected Jerome T. Kilty '50 managing director, and appointed Blair Boyd '48 assistant manager and William Becker '47 secretary. Selected as members of the play reading committee were Weisgal, Kenneth Koch '48, and Miss Marie Heath...
Ballots, according to Mendy Weisgal '45, 1G, will list representative drama from early times down to the present and will allow voters maximum freedom in making their choices...
...Workshop," said Weisgal, "maintains that even the best production of the fourth finest classic would meet with the same indifference as did 'King in Babylon.' We hopes as a result of the poll to be able to select a play with universal appeal and prove that we are wrong...
Fortunately, neither of the plays presented this season went bad for lack of acting ability. Ted Allegretti, John Lemmon, and others of the Harvard Dramatic Club have shown themselves capable of handling anything within the realm of reasonable histrionies. Mendy Weisgal, Marie Heath, and the company of the Veterans Theater Workshop displayed unusual talent in keeping a shoddy vehicle moving. Clearly, the faults that resulted in snarling press notices and red-scrawled ledgers lay in the choosing and not the acting of the productions...
Struggling against odds to reseue the production from Mr. Gerhardi were the two leads, Mendy Weisgal and Marie Heath. Weisgal raged eleverly on as Hector Rigoletto, male witch extraordinaire, Abelard, and Aristotle; but the real orchids must be saved for Mrs. Heath, who gave a delightfully British performance as Emma Seruple-Madison and brought the show to its humorous climax with a skillfully executed drunken laugh, spin, and fall...