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Fellow actors are apt to give him bad marks in technique, but they are impressed by his ability to immerse himself in a role, study it, think about it, live it. When he played Rembrandt, he read every scrap he could find about the painter, down to details on what kind of brushes artists used in the 17th century. As the domineering father in The Barretts of Wimpole Street, he became intolerably high & mighty around his own home. When he acted the murderer in Payment Deferred, he got so morose he nearly had a nervous breakdown. Says Korda of these...
Rooms in Dunster either overlook the beautiful Charles River--or they don't. If they don't one is apt to get a rather uninspiring view of the drab tenements which surround the House. All Dunster rooms were meant originally to be either doubles or singles--with crowded conditions many were converted into triples, but that is about as big as they...
...Queen Elizabeth II, who was born on April 21, 1926, will celebrate her "official" birthday on June 5, so that her loyal subjects will be more apt to have a sunny day to witness her birthday pageant in Whitehall's Horse Guards parade. Her father, December-born, also officially celebrated June...
...younger generation is being taught tolerance of most anything; shocked by very little. The higher education encompasses tolerance of sex experiences before marriage. There is a let down of strong moral feelings against having affairs outside the class room. Adventures of the minds of students no longer are apt to be mild and safe. With the "higher" learning there is implanted the fear of being a bit too stodgy. Schools seem to be producing precocious technicians who lean to believe life is long on treachery, short on rewards. Everywhere, almost, one hears the reiterated gripe against life. Students wallow...
...distressing tendencies. He told his classes that Germany lost the war because Jews sabotaged the production of "new secret weapons." Yet he managed to wangle an appointment to the "school of democracy," run by the British Foreign Office at Wilton Park near London, for promising Germans. He was an apt pupil in the six-week course, but after he got back he sounded more than ever like an unrepentant Nazi. He was fired from his teaching job for "political indiscretions." Then he got into politics...