question: The Halfway House starred the retired stage actress who was born in what city and country?
answer: Pretoria, South Africa
context: Title: Glynis Johns
  Passage: Glynis Johns (born 5 October 1923) is a retired Welsh stage, television and film actress, dancer, pianist, and singer.  Born in Pretoria, South Africa of Welsh origin, she is best known for creating the role of Desiree Armfeldt in "A Little Night Music" on Broadway, for which she won a Tony Award, and for playing Winifred Banks in Walt Disney's musical motion picture box office smash "Mary Poppins."  In both roles, she originated songs written specifically for her, including "Send in the Clowns", composed by Stephen Sondheim, and "Sister Suffragette", written by the Sherman Brothers.  She was nominated for an Oscar for her work in the 1960 film "The Sundowners".
  Title: Halfway House (Ansted, West Virginia)
  Passage: Halfway House, also known as the Tyree Tavern, is a historic inn and tavern located at Ansted, Fayette County, West Virginia.  It is a two story, log and frame building with a gable roof measuring 50 feet long and 20 feet deep.  The original log section was built prior to 1810.  It was expanded to its present configuration about 1827.  It served as a stage coach stop on the James River and Kanawha Turnpike.  Notable guests included Daniel Webster, Henry Clay, and John Breckenridge.  It also was headquarters of the Chicago Gray Dragoons during the American Civil War.  It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.
  Title: Walter Crofton
  Passage: Sir Walter Frederick Crofton (1815–1897) was chair of the Board of Directors of Convict Prisons for Ireland between 1854 and 1862.  He is sometimes cited as Alexander Maconochie's ideological heir.  Under Crofton's system of prison administration, known as the Irish system, prisoners progressed through three stages of confinement.  During the first stage, the penal stage, prisoners were held in solitary cells for approximately nine months.  The second stage involved communal labor in public works prisons.  For the third stage, officials promoted prisoners in small numbers to "intermediate" prisons (essentially a halfway house, where they could run errands and attend church in the community) as a final test of their readiness for Irish tickets of leave.  A prisoner who received a ticket was granted conditional release into the community, in which he would be supervised by law enforcement or civilian personnel who were required to secure employment and to conduct home visits.  These "supervisors" represented the forerunner to modern parole officers.
  Title: Kevin Ruf
  Passage: Kevin Ruf (born December 7, 1961) is an American actor and comedian.  He recently starred in the Comedy Central show "Halfway Home" as Kenny Carlyle, the house supervisor of a halfway house.  He was the newsman in "That Was The Week That Was" on ABC's "Primetime Live".  He is also an attorney.  In 2006, he argued and won a case before the California Supreme Court which expanded the rights of day laborers.  The case was entitled "Smith v. L'Oreal."
  Title: A Halfway House Christmas
  Passage: A Halfway House Christmas is a 2005 film written and directed by Eric Moyer and produced by Frank Carney which starred Robert Romanus, an American actor who has starred in film and television.  Rob is best remembered for his role in the 1982 comedy "Fast Times at Ridgemont High" as the ticket scalper Mike Damone.  Also appearing in this movie are Ryan Dunn and Rake Yohn, both of Jackass fame.  Evil Jared Hasselhoff plays a nasty Santa.  Bobcat Goldthwait narrates the movie.
  Title: The Halfway House
  Passage: The Halfway House is a 1944 British drama film directed by Basil Dearden and starring Mervyn Johns, his daughter Glynis Johns, Tom Walls and Françoise Rosay.  The film tells the story of ten people who are drawn to stay in an old inn near the Welsh countryside.  The film was shot at Barlynch Abbey on the Devon/Somerset border.
  Title: Liberty National Golf Club
  Passage: Liberty National is a country club in Jersey City, New Jersey with the club house, guest villas, teaching super center and halfway house referred to as "Cafe 12" designed by Lindsay Newman Architecture and Design and with a 7353 yd course designed by Robert E. Cupp and Tom Kite.
  Title: Glen Oak Country Club
  Passage: Glen Oak Country Club is a private golf course in Glen Ellyn, Illinois that was established in 1911.  The 18 hole course plays 6,503 yards and par 72 with a 72.1 rating.  The course features relatively small greens protected by bunkers with open fairways; it is especially notable for the extensive treeline on most holes.  Danny Mulhearn is the head golf professional.  The course also has a pool area for member use.  On the ninth hole, there is a Halfway House to refresh the players with drinks, beverages and food.  As the weather transitions from fall to winter many members change from golfing to The Skeet and Trap Club, which features a new remodeled Lodge area.
  Title: Isaac T. Hopper House
  Passage: The Isaac T. Hopper House, a Greek Revival townhouse at 110 Second Avenue between East 6th and 7th Streets in the East Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, next to the New Middle Collegiate Church, was built in 1837-38.  It was built as a rowhouse, and was originally the residence of David H. Robertson, a merchant who later went bankrupt.  The house then became the home of Ralph and Ann E. Van Wyck Mead, one of four rowhouses used by their extended family.  It remained owned by the Mead family until 1870, and in 1874 was purchased by the Women's Prison Association, founded by Quaker abolitionists and prison reformers Isaac Tatem Hopper and his daughter Abigail Hopper Gibbons.  The Isaac T. Hopper Home continues to serve the Women's Prison Association as a halfway house.
  Title: James Randi
  Passage: James Randi (born Randall James Hamilton Zwinge; August 7, 1928) is a Canadian-American retired stage magician and a scientific skeptic who has extensively challenged paranormal and pseudoscientific claims.  Randi is the co-founder of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry (CSI), originally known as the "Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal" (CSICOP).  He is also the founder of the James Randi Educational Foundation (JREF).  He began his career as a magician under the stage name The Amazing Randi and later chose to devote most of his time to investigating paranormal, occult, and supernatural claims, which he collectively calls "woo-woo".  Randi retired from practicing magic at age 60, and from the JREF at 87.
citations: The Halfway House Glynis Johns