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...were in the mess hall. There was a big pot-bellied stove at one end," recalls Marilyn Whisman Tyler '45, who organized the two dozen women who made up Radcliffe's entertainment Unit...
...classmate Whiz (Marilyn Whisman [Monsour]'45-'44) organized a Radcliffe Entertainment Unit,to bring cheer to men in bleak barracks. In aBoston club for seamen, the stage lacking steps,we ran down an aisle and jumped three feet to getaboard, our inebriated audience meanwhile snoringloudly through the show...
...acting is markedly superior to the general run of collegiate productions, with the Radcliffe girls adroitly putting their Harvard cousins into the background. Leslie Paul, Radcliffe '45, gives a well-polished performance as the sympathetic aunt, and Claire Pollack is much more than the comic family retainer. Marilyn Whisman in the title role, though inclined to be over-tragic in places, carries the role by her obvious sincerity. For Harvard, George Clay '43, makes the most of some comic lines, and Mendy Weisgal and Donald Gair, both '45, play the supporting role with conviction...
Pearl Pollack's characterization of the House-keeper afforded what were perhaps the most enjoyable moments of the play, but Leslie Paul in the less rewarding role of the Aunt gave a performance outstanding for its sustained restraint and subtlety of characterization. Marilyn Whisman was the third of the Radcliffe trio which took top honors for the evening. Her Rosita was less assured than the others' characterizations, but her main fault was in trying to read a third and dramatic dimension into a character left two-dimensional by the author...
Inviting one, two or three Harvard men to a dance is nothing compared to the mass dating done by Marilyn Whisman, pretty blond Radcliffe Freshman, who in the last two days has asked a sum total of 300 upperclassmen to the Eliot House Fall Dance...
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