Word: roles
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Farrand, as Cressida, has changed her interpretation considerably. Instead of playing a sexy two-timer as she did last year, she makes Cressida out to be a well-meaning and affectionate girl who is the victim of circumstances. The change in role has not diminished her charms as an actress. Cressida's uncle, Pandarus, is played by Thayer David, who makes the part, that of a coarse and effeminate old man extremely amusing...
Herman Hickman and Charlie Caldwell, head football coaches at Yale and Princeton Universities, gave cool receptions yesterday to the steps proposed by Yale's Torch Honor Society to lessen the "excessive time spent on athletics by voluntarily limiting the role of major sports...
Howie Houston, 1949 Crimson football captain, felt that the steps urged "might well be in the best interests of the universities involved," but he expressed doubt that anything would be done to change the present role of athletics in college life...
...They even gave Charley McCarthy, who is rivalled as the screen's biggest pain only by Margaret O'Brien, equal billing and yards of film. But all this merely sharpens the edge of the master's humor. Surrounded by his perennial stooges, Fields shuffles and mumbles in the role of Larsen E. Whipsnade, bankrupt circus owner, following the fast buck and followed by the sheriff...
...prop man, graduated to cowboy actor when Director John Ford took a shine to him. Through most of the '30s, he made quickie westerns so fast that he "practically had to sleep on a horse." In 1939 Director Ford came to the rescue with a leading role in Stagecoach. After that, Wayne's career went ahead at full gallop...