Word: avon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Mrs. John Wallace Riddle, 77, self-educated architect, second woman member of the American Institute of Architects, founder-designer of the famed ivy-covered Avon Old Farms School in Avon, Conn., widow of the onetime U.S. Ambassador to Russia and Argentina; of uremic poisoning; in Farmington, Conn...
Professor Romer, who lives at 38 Avon Street, Cambridge, has also served the University in the capacities of Tutor in the Department of Biology, Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology, and Director of the Biological Laboratories...
...being as high-spirited as it is slaphappy, Memphis Bound adds up to an agreeable evening. For one thing, it has Bill Robinson at 67 tapping superbly, still doing his famous staircase dance effortlessly, and more of a personality than ever, It also has Avon Long (Porgy & Bess) who darts and dances like a salamander with a sense of style. It has attractive girls, gay and colorful sets, brilliantly gaudy costumes, hot dance routines. There is plenty of fizz in Memphis Bound, but it ought to be better bottled...
...frequently. It is surprising that it is so rarely done, and Jane Cowl, riding in on the Harvard Dramatic Club's tailstream, is reported to be readying a production of "Much Ado" for Broadway next season. The play has not appeared in Boston since 1930, when the Stratford-on-Avon players did it and got good notices...
...story of "Memphis Bound" concerns the attempts of a group of Calliboga, Tennessee, Negroes of Lord-knows-what profession to produce "Pinafore" on the deck of an old Mississippi side-wheeler. The plot is sketchy--almost inadequate--by with "Pinafore" and Avon Long and Bill Robinson no one really cares...