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...often that a director of Norman Ayrton's caliber comes to direct a play at Harvard. There is no real drawing card, because drama at Harvard is a pastime, not a pursuit. Technically, the Loeb provides a magnificent facility, but otherwise Harvard does not have a professional atmosphere for drama. So, it's unusual for a professional to show an interest in Harvard. But, nevertheless, Norman Ayrton is here directing "The Rivals," which opens tomorrow night at the Loeb. And Ayrton is very definitely a professional...
After World War II, Ayrton began his professional training at the Old Vic School. From there he joined the Old Vic Company, and subsequently moved to London, to open his own studio. He also began teaching at London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts...
Picasso is not only the most famous artist in history, he is also the richest. "Currency is worth less in Picasso's hands than a sheet of blank paper," remarked the English artist and critic Michael Ayrton, "and this condition promotes the problems with which the legendary Midas had to contend." Picasso can get anything by drawing for it. Shortly after World War II, he acquired one of his Midi villas, now relinquished, by exchanging it for a set of lithographs. His own collection of Picassos, several hundred oils (not counting his sculpture, much of which he has kept...
...largest maze in the world and, according to Ayrton, "the only one of stone since the 4th or 5th century B.C." The Erpf maze contains 1,680 feet of passageway, with brick walls running from six to eight feet in height. Ayrton considers the work "environmental sculpture." Erpf considers it "an esthetic experience, a symbol in a world so caught up with scientific rationalism it doesn't know where it's going. You can't get to the center of a maze by going straight for it. You have to be indirect. The way to attain something...
...backdrop of "melancholy trees"), the structure is now virtually complete. Erpf's three-year-old daughter, Cornelia, wanders about the maze and Erpf has made it to the center in five minutes. For the uninitiate, mastering the maze can take half an hour of trial and error. Ayrton has provided no printed explanation or map to the solution. "If a person could walk in and figure it out," he explains, "I would feel I had failed...