Word: abbeys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hope got back from Britain shortly after a brush with Westminster Abbey authorities. The comedian and a cinema company with a load of cinematic baggage had piled into the Dean's Yard to shoot some scenes, promptly got bundled out again. They had neglected to ask permis sion. Title of the movie: Welcome to Great Britain...
...Century-Fox) unites that bland bully Monty Woolley (The Man Who Came to Dinner) and British Singer Grade Fields, results in a bouncing comedy. The fun revolves around a corpse. When his valet (Eric Blore) dies, great British Painter Priam Farll (Monty Woolley) has the body buried in Westminster Abbey...
There 80-odd scholarly Europeans and Americans had a marvelous time. For Mount Holyoke, long a home of ultra-serious-minded education, was trying earnestly to take the place of Burgundy's 12th-Century Cistercian abbey of Pontigny, until 1939 a sort of Chautauqua for Europe's top-drawer intellectuals...
Original Pontigny. In his Burgundian abbey, Historian-Critic Paul Desjardins, a Sevres normal-school professor, during 23 summers assembled groups of scholars, writers, artists, for decades (ten-day periods). They drank the local wine, walked by the local river, played intellectual games, reveled in organized chats on fixed topics led by experts. Old Pontigny stars: Andre Gide, Paul Valery, Roger Fry, Gaetano Salvemini...
Rebirth at South Hadley. With Desjardins dead and his abbey reported restored to the Cistercian monks (who had sold it in the early 1900s), Mount Holyoke's crisp, French-fluent Professor Helen Elizabeth Patch last year suggested that her old Sorbonne master, Gustave Cohen, and fellow refugees of New York's Ecole Libre des Hautes Etudes might enjoy some summer days at her college...