Word: ronald
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Despite the fact that additional people and places are now visible, "The Voice of the Turtle" is still essentially a three-character show. Eleanor Parker and Ronald Reagan, while not able to reach the level established in New York by Margaret Sullivan and Elliot Nugent, are quite capable. Eve Arden, playing the glossy, irresponsible Olive, is up to any standard...
With the help of relatives in England, they managed to raise the cash. A few days later, George was back with British passports and British identities (Szulc became "Ronald Drummond"; Kuper, "James Hughes"). They were also given Scottish birth certificates, plane tickets for Canada. Not long after that, the two Poles were in Toronto. Szulc got a job with a furrier, Kuper with a tailor...
Dixon Wecter, and Louis B. Wright of the Huntington Library. The only paid staffer is Managing Editor Edith Ronald Mirrielees, 69, a retired English professor who does her editing perched on a cushioned Governor Winthrop chair in the cozy study of her Palo Alto home...
Playwright Van Druten, who wrote the movie adaptation, may have tried hard to keep his tongue in his cheek, but it's a safe bet that he also ground it between his molars. Ronald Reagan, none too shrewdly cast, plays, of necessity, as if he were trying to tone down an off-color joke for a child of eight. Eleanor Parker's imitation of Margaret Sullavan, the Broadway original, is painfully scrupulous, from the hair on out. But it is hard to believe that Sergeant Reagan could long endure the retarded maiden she portrays, much less find...
Rejects. In Pittsburgh, Ronald L. Hale escaped an auto smash-up with slight injuries, one embarrassment: he was knocked right out of his pants. In Jerome, Idaho, David Detweiler, in an accidental brush with a potato-digging machine, suffered no injury at all but was picked clean of everything but his shoes & socks...