Word: macdonald
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Duke of Athens, with the antics of Peter Quince and his loutish crew. This scene invites overplaying, a sin the Players certainly avoid. Edgerton as Quince, Waldstein as Bottom, William Trebilcock as Flute, Harvey White as Wall, and Karl Cook as Snug clown without hamming. And Bruce MacDonald plays the magnanimous Duke with special ability...
Besides Miss Tettelbach, other leading roles in the production are played by Eugene Gervasi, as Richard II; Earle Edgerton, as Falstaff; Bruce Macdonald as Theseus; Thomas Lumbard as Lysander; and Erich Segal as Romeo...
...south pull of economics and geography. How to make a nation out of Canada has in fact been the historic preoccupation of both of Canada's major parties almost to the exclusion of doctrinaire, right-left, capitalism-socialism struggles. Canada's first Prime Minister, Tory John A. Macdonald (1867-73, 1878-91), liberally subsidized the Canadian Pacific Railroad to keep Canada from being served only by north-bound branch lines of U.S. railroads. Liberal C. D. Howe, a devoted private enterpriser, saw nothing strange in fathering a national airline and a national radio-TV network. When Liberals adopted...
...exceptionally high-quality voices which is agreeably suited to comic opera. Unfortunately, the acting is not always so successful, at least it is not up to the calibre of the singing. In the title roles of the two primi gondolieri and pretenders to the throne of Barataria, Bruce Macdonald and George Brown both sing remarkably well and elicit a great deal of satire from their acting. Neither of the pair strikes one as of the gondoliering or the regal type, but this only serves to heighten the humor...
Celebrating the 20th anniversary of one of Hollywood's more durable marriages, Soprano Jeanette MacDonald and Actor Gene Raymond, a major in the Air Force Reserve, rubbed noses and nibbled wedding cake in Las Vegas, Nev., where Jeanette was singing at the Sahara...