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...flood of good, bad and mediocre disks, there are some surprising disappointments. Siobhan McKenna's reading of Molly Bloom's sensuous soliloquy from James Joyce's Ulysses lacks both the virago drive and the Lilith languors of that Protean whore; Dame Peggy Ashcroft sounds too much the maidenly elocutionist for the passionate verses in her assorted Poetry Readings (London). London's Sherlock Holmes disk goes to the other extreme as three mighty hams-Sir John Gielgud, Sir Ralph Richardson. Orson Welles-rant and thunder through Dr. Watson Meets Sherlock Holmes and The Final Problem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Spoken Word | 12/9/1957 | See Source »

...Pity She's a Whore has great possibilities. Intriguing, suggestive opportunities for passion and subtlety are richly woven into every act. Unfortunately, the HDC makes the least of nearly every opportunity; their production of Tis Pity drops Harvard theatre to a low level--an overacted, externally acted, embarassing, awkward level...

Author: By Larry Hartmann, | Title: `Tis Pity She's a Whore' | 12/4/1957 | See Source »

...latest stratagem employed by the Harvard Dramatic Club to advertise their production of "'Tis Pity She's a Whore" is a poster displaying Gothic arches. The arches lend an Elizabethan atmosphere and at the same time utilize perspective such that the word "whore" is barely visible to casual passers-by. If they could do it, the HDC would like to do away with this world altogether, since it has delayed printing orders, cancelled window displays, and prompted the hasty removal of posters from utility poles around the Square...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Tis Indeed... | 11/30/1957 | See Source »

...contributions collected from its members. The successful production of the Ibsen play was held over for two extra performances last Friday and Saturday, substantially increasing its total profits. After paying its expenses, and covering part of the costs of the HDC's next production, '"Tis Pity She's a Whore," Cushman estimated that the organization would end up about $300 in debt...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HDC Nears Solvency, Assisted by Proceeds From 'Master Builder' | 11/18/1957 | See Source »

Discussing publicity for '"Tis Pity She's a Whore," John Ford's drama of incest, the club's former president, David E. Green '58 noted that there might be objections in Cambridge to the last word of the title. He said that the Cambridge Trust Company has refused to display an advertisement for the production in their windows...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HDC Nears Solvency, Assisted by Proceeds From 'Master Builder' | 11/18/1957 | See Source »

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