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...Bardell's breach-of-promise suit, Mr. Pickwick (George Howe) counts for much more on the stage than he does in the book. This means-and it is the measure of where Dickens suffers most-that Mr. Pickwick counts for much more than his gloriously Dickensian servant, Sam Weller. The trial scene, too, though it is made the climax of the evening, has been shorn of its full comic grandeur, with Mr. Serjeant Buzfuz's appearance in it all too brief. But Stiggins, the red-nosed parson, and Jingle and Mrs. Leo Hunter and many others have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play in Manhattan, Sep. 29, 1952 | 9/29/1952 | See Source »

...Weller...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Gentlemen of the Road | 8/20/1951 | See Source »

...responsibility of electing a Mrs. De Wyss Altbee the first woman President of the United States. To President Altbee fell the painful duty of informing her all-female cabinet that the country was about to be attacked by a Russian fleet manned entirely by women. "Our Navy," said Mrs. Weller, the Secretary of the Interior, "will have to steam out immediately and destroy them!" "Who'll steam it?" groaned Mrs. Dwight, the Secretary of Agriculture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Shall We Join the Ladies? | 1/15/1951 | See Source »

Leverett Four: Paul, stroke; Decker, 3; Smith, 2; Doyle, bow; Weller, Coxswain...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 5 College Boats Enter Local Race | 6/2/1950 | See Source »

...read The Crack in the Column as a political guidebook; it is enough that it skillfully portrays the tragedy of a nation, and offers a few memorably sketched figures in the foreground. It is not a simple story, but it is a good one. Greece has deeply affected George Weller-as he says of one of his characters, it has unfitted him for simplicity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Figures in the Foreground | 9/19/1949 | See Source »

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