Word: alchemists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...China had been exporting the finished product to Europe for two centuries before an alchemist named Johann Friedrich Böttger, a protege of Augustus the Strong of Saxony, succeeded in cracking the secret of porcelain making in 1709. His success made it possible for Augustus, an avid collector of the Chinese article, to manufacture...
...Jonson was the best selling author last night as far as House Christmas plays were concerned. Eliot presented his "The Silent Woman" and Leverett "The Silent Woman" and Leverett "The Alchemist." Kirkland performed a modern revue containing a variety of skits...
...only other Jonson comedy will be given by Leverett, also on next Wednesday. The Bunnie Hutch plans a production of "The Alchemist." Lowell House will present Shakespeare's "The Taming of the Shrew" on the same night...
...loudly trumpeted musicals, Allegro and Inside U.S.A., reached Broadway with $500,000 or more already in the till; but far more modest musicals like Make Mine Manhattan and Angel in the Wings proved much better fun. The classics provided some rewarding evenings (Medea, Antony and Cleopatra, The Alchemist) and there was enough Shaw for a minor festival...
Last week The Alchemist was given a lively airing-as the first bill in the New York City Center's spring theater program. Set smack in Jonson's lusty London, the play tells of three high-flying cheats, one of whom professes to be an alchemist, and of the brisk trade they drive. Dupes and sharpers alike are finally discomfited; but first the alchemist is sought out by every kind and condition of hopeful, from a modest lawyer's clerk who has an itch to gamble to the City knight, Sir Epicure Mammon, with his sumptuous...