Word: juno
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Charlotte Greenwood makes a triumphal return to the musical comedy stage as a frustrated Juno, forever pursuing her errant husband. When she is on, she outshines everyone else; she and she alone exploits Porter's songs to their fullest. Her singing, dancing, and her mugging and remnants of a style of musical-comedy performance that prevailed in the expansive '30's, and which might well be revived now. David Burns is also a pleasure to watch as Niki Skolianos, formerly of South Chicago, who operates the inn and a poppy plantation on the side. Other praiseworthy performers are William Redfield...
Died. Sara Allgood, 66, for a quarter-century one of Dublin's Abbey Players (Juno and the Pay cock), in recent years a Hollywood character actress (How Green Was My Valley); of a heart ailment; in Woodland Hills, Calif. Dublin-born, she became at 18 a member ("the youngest and humblest," she recalled) of the Irish National Theatre Society, a group of patriotic enthusiasts (including Padraic Colum, George Russell, William Butler Yeats) who founded the Abbey Theatre and sparked the Irish Revival. A cinemactress on & off since 1929 (Blackmail, the first British talking picture), she brightened dozens...
More than 100 members of the Class of '53 will set up housekeeping in Leverett next fall. Ninety-four of those, Housemaster Leigh Hoadley reports, will move into suites that will be completely vacated by Juno graduation. This offers an excellent chance for men who want to room together to find what they want...