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...Lack of script-writers and commentators forced the League to leave the proposal unaccepted at present, although Elaine Tanner, Radcliffe '50, club president, and the majority of the members attending the meeting voiced approval of the idea...
...drama group is rejuvenating this risque play by adding impressionistic music, substituting bars of London coffee houses, wearing modern clothes and eliminating such words as "Whig," and "Tory" from the 17th century script...
Regardless of the weather, Freeman always starts by saying it's a fine morning. Then, with time out for a sponsor's message about mayonnaise, he drawls glibly without script for 15 minutes. Sometimes he announces that there is no news worth mentioning, advises people not to buy a paper that day. From politics, war, or a headlined disaster he may slip into a spiel on Southern cooking: "Where you go'n' to find better cookin' than in your own Virginia? Provided, of course, you use enough corn bread, and enough bacon in cookin...
...during that day's session. At its close an aide handed Laguerre a sheet of paper written in Byrnes's famed old-style court-stenographer's shorthand. The trouble was that not even Byrnes's own aides, who were used to it, could read the script, and the Secretary himself was not available to decipher it. The sheet of paper now reposes under glass on the wall of Laguerre's office, and to this day nobody knows what it says...
...free to accept offers from Broadway, where he is also in great demand. One offer is for Lillian Hellman's forthcoming dramatization of the best-selling The Naked and the Dead. Clift doesn't know whether he'll do it : he hasn't seen the script...