Word: avon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...66th annual Shakespeare Festival opened in Stratford-on-Avon with one new wrinkle. For the first time in Festival history, the leading lady was an American: blonde, Syracuse-born Claire Luce.† The choice was a deliberate one, by way of saying thank you for U.S. support of last year's Festival, with its record-breaking attendance of 230,000. Besides playing Beatrice in the opening Much Ado About Nothing, Actress Luce will appear in Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer, play Cleopatra in the birthday performance (April 23) of Antony & Cleopatra...
Wartime or no, schoolmasters will still get together to talk shop. Last week in London the Incorporated Association of Assistant Masters in Secondary Schools held a meeting. The retiring chairman, homey, 60-year-old Arthur Henry Baker, chemistry master of Fitzmaurice Grammar School at Bradford-on-Avon, took a long look into the future, reported a horrendous sight...
...would be the same as if the Germans had wrecked Stratford upon Avon...
...Avon Old Farms' closing was only the most recent of a nearly continuous series of shocks to the school-which have kept the fashionable Farmington area of Connecticut agog as to what Mrs. Riddle and her unusual educational foundation might do or exhibit next. Theodate Pope Riddle was born in Salem, Ohio, the daughter of Alfred Atmore Pope, who had a fortune from Ohio iron mines. Her late husband, John Wallace Riddle, was U.S. Ambassador to Russia and Argentina. Mrs. Riddle went down on the Lusitania, but came up again and collected $25,000 damages from Germany. She studied...
...advantages of Avon Old Farms, many parents were willing to pay tuition of $1,450 a year. But the school was repeatedly harassed by conflicts between its high-grade faculties and its formidable founder. In 17 years two provosts ( Avonian for headmaster), to one of whom she had been led by consulting a classified telephone directory, quit after rows. Once the bulk of the faculty followed progressive Provost Francis Mitchell Froelicher to Colorado's Fountain Valley School. Last week Provost W. Brooke Stabler, an Episcopal cleric who formerly preached and taught at the University of Pennsylvania, decided to take...