Word: roles
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...does every Sunday, Premier Ernest Charles Manning had stepped out of his role as boss of oil-booming Alberta, and assumed his other position as head of the Prophetic Bible Institute in downtown Calgary. To some 250 people, who had braved 12°-below-zero weather to hear him, the pale, slender politician preached in a twangy, compelling voice. Calgary's radio station CFCN carried his weekly Back to the Bible Hour to the rest of Alberta...
...Copenhagen, Puffed Wheat Heir John Pierce Anderson, an abstract artist of Red Wing, Minn., gave an adequate performance in a tough role. As he arrived in Denmark with Madam Ambassador Eugenie Anderson and their two children, he was asked the inevitable question ("How does it feel to be the husband of the first U.S. woman ambassador?"). Anderson thought solemnly for a moment, eyed the reporters with a twinkle and muttered: "A difficult question...
...production (Broadway's first since 1925) is satisfying without being brilliant. It offers a properly tightened version, enhanced by Rolf Gerard's impressive, simple sets. Sir Cedric Hardwicke (plagued by laryngitis on opening night) plays his role with a slow gravity better suited to Caesar than to Shaw, but still with real authority and understanding. European-born Lilli Palmer suits both Cleopatra and Shaw. She is as kittenish as Shaw's Cleopatras always are, as physically alluring as they always should...