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...working-class Irish-American family in Jersey City, New Jersey, where he regularly starred in the plays at St. Peter's Prep. In New York he started building his theater resume, appearing in flops (the Doug Henning musical Merlin) and a few prestige successes (a revival of Noel Coward's Present Laughter starring George C. Scott) before finding his artistic voice in several plays by McNally. His long association and friendship with the playwright is currently asunder, because Lane passed up a chance to co-star in the movie version of Love! Valour! Compassion! Lane blamed a schedule conflict...
...writer-director Kenneth Branagh's A Midwinter's Tale is a very acceptable update. Especially if you like Woody Allen too. For Branagh has adopted a number of Allen's mannerisms: shooting in black and white, using old songs for the score--in this case, frugally, just one song, Noel Coward's great anti-show biz anthem, Why Must the Show...
...reader will note that I have written a book about racial oppression without using the term 'racism,'" concludes Harvard Lecturer Noel Ignatiev in his new book How the Irish Became White. Contrary to the implication, this feat of catapulting over the single most divisive 'ism' in the English language required no linguistic acrobatics, only a careful scrutiny of the historical record. As theorists have long since suggested, the elevation of whiteness above blackness in America's northern cities originated in economic greed, developed into wage competition, and then sustained itself with bogus 'race' theories only after black degradation was already...
...Crimson recently spoke with Michael H. Schur '97, who plays Charles Condomine in "Blithe Spirit," a comedy by Noel Coward showing at the Loeb Experimental Theater on October 26, 27 and 28. The play is directed by Terrell P. McSweeney '97, produced by Megan A. Mathews '96 and admission is free...
...Noel C. Allen '95-'96, a Dunster House English concentrator and one of the poets in the workshop, said that she was "really impressed with the good turnout and how appreciative the audience...