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...Misses Victoria Glaser as Belinda, Barbara S. Miller as the First Witch. Evelyn Stern as the Second Witch; John Eric 1G as the Sorcerer, Charles Ashmore '38 as Mercury, and Robert Cochrane, Jr. '39 as the Sailor...
...male leads are handled by John H. Eric '37, 1G, Charles DeL. Ashmore '38, David P. McAllester '38, and Robert C. Cochrane, Jr., '39. Recruited from the Radcliffe Choral Group, the feminine soloists will be Norma Nasmyth '39, Victoria Glaser '40, Barbara R. Miller '40, and Evelyn Stern '39. A small string orchestra has been drawn from several quarters...
...barbed thrusts about nepotism. Sawed-off, narrow-eyed, cigar-waving Producer LeRoy is still hailed, at 37, as the Boy Wonder. At five he fell three stories in the San Francisco earthquake, landed unhurt on a mattress. At nine, engaged at $2.50 a week in a stage production of Barbara Frietchie to watch for the Rebels from a prop tree, he fell out of the tree, got a raise because audiences liked the variation. After a try at vaudeville singing he got into films, posed as a cameraman, worked as a gagman, then got a chance at directing...
...often-told life story, biographers have enjoyed tracing her flair for the theatrical back to the Lowell, Mass, child who at four snipped off her younger sister Barbara's pretty curls; who at eight hated dolls, romped naked in snowdrifts; who at ten, terribly burned in a Christmas tree blaze, played blind for the exquisite drama of the moment...
...name, Bette (pronounced Betty), was a custom-made diminutive of Elizabeth. Her full name is Ruth Elizabeth, after her mother, Ruth Elizabeth Favor Davis. When Bette was eight her parents were divorced.* Thereafter Bette & Barbara lived with Mrs. Davis, known affectionately as Ruthie...