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...first act, though awkwardly staged around an automobile resembling a behemoth bathtub, was saved by the amusing inefficiency of the duffer Parpalaid (played by Sobert Dargie) and the witty, if sometimes forced, interpretation of his hayseed wife played by Priscilla Foley...

Author: By Anna C. Hunt, | Title: Doctor Knock | 7/18/1957 | See Source »

...PRISCILLA JOHNSON New York City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 1, 1957 | 7/1/1957 | See Source »

First prize in graphic arts rightly went to Leonard Baskin for his superb "Shofar Prayer." Other awards went to William Georgenes, Jane Stouffer and Donald Kelley, the last outstanding for his "Priscilla." In sculpture, first prize went to Harold Tovish's good "Head of a Girl," with honorable mention to William Martin's striking "Stalking Bird." I liked George Aaron's "Jeremiah" and Peter Abate's "Youth and His Dreams" most...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: Sixth Annual Boston Arts Festival Evaluated | 7/1/1957 | See Source »

...house mother, Miss Havisham (Helen Bee) who gives the girls the benefit of the knowledge gained from her old house in Atlantic City. The rest of the plot comes with the romance of bashful bohemian Fred (John Baker) and his less-shaggy but more-shrewd soul force Priscilla (Sallie Wolfe). Baker's voice is shaky, but he was a solidly insecure bohemian. Miss Wolfe's singing voice is pleasant, but her acting was wooden. As Fred's intellectual playmate, Alice Oberg's red hair and fluid hips more than excused her voice as she sang, "A Flat on Brattle Street...

Author: By Robert H. Sand, | Title: Drumbeats and Song | 3/9/1957 | See Source »

...first complete draft of "Hiawatha," on exhibit at Houghton Library, reveals that Longfellow first called it "Manabozha." Other manuscripts on display include "Priscilla," "Evangeline," and "Paul Revere's Ride...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Longfellow's 150th Anniversary Today Is Marked by Exhibitions | 2/27/1957 | See Source »

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