Word: spelvin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other actors, including a wisely anonymous George Spelvin, seemed to have lacked a director. And it was rather disconcerting that a pair of shoes which was taken off in January (act I) had not been removed from the stage by June...
Twelfth Night has used an odd assortment of music to provide transition between scenes. While it helps to keep the intervals short, much is heavy and inappropriate, and one wonders whether it is needed at all. Costumes are quite suitable, and the settings and lighting by George Spelvin are adequate if necessarily crude because of the show's limited budget...
From this production, intricately and amusingly created by Dolly Niggemeyer, who kept the show's choreography at a top level all evening, comes the show's biggest stopper, a song called "Terrible, Terrible Crisis," sung by three, played by Samuel Gilflx, Richard Waldron, and George Spelvin, side-step to the praises of sex on the stage. Feek's three assistants, especially Bursk, who continually delighted the audience, also brought encores with an intricate soft-shoe routine in the first act. Further, they contributed heavily to "Judge a Book by Its Cover," a flashy ditty, extolling leg-art on the jackets...
...practice in Okolona, Miss. into the hotel business, and had wound up in Washington. Like most of his friends, in 1929 he had gone broke ($500,000 in the red). But he liked Washington and he made a lot of friends. Franklin Roosevelt did not know him "from George Spelvin," but the President appointed him one of the three District Commissioners of Washington...