Word: benjamin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Competing against low temperatures and a drizzle, Alfred Nash Patterson conducted a worthy semi-concert version of Benjamin Britten's opera Peter Grimes, probably the finest British opera since Purcell's Dido...
...other roles are well handled, and I should like to mention at least Dee Victor (Lady Sneer-well), Olive Dunbar (Lady Candour), Frederic Warriner (Sir Benjamin Backbite), Stanley Jay (Old Rowley), and Robert Evans (Charles Surface). The only jarring notes are contributed by Thomas Hill (Sir Oliver Surface), who, fine as he is in the more realistic modern repertory, cannot attune his diction to the period style required here...
...Jail" group, including Architecture Historian Henry Russell Hitchcock, who calls it "a treasure of which Pittsburgh is the custodian." Status: besieged but still standing. ¶ Chicago's Auditorium Building, the first major work of Chicago Pioneers Adler and Sullivan, which served as the setting for Republican Candidate Benjamin Harrison's nomination for the presidency in 1888, and is ranked by Frank Lloyd Wright as "the greatest room for music and opera in the world-bar none." Closed as a theater since 1940. used for three years as a servicemen's bowling alley, the 4,200-seat house...
Albert A. Mavrinac, outgoing Senior Tutor of Winthrop House, has been appointed chairman of the Colby College Department of History and Government. His successor is Benjamin W. Labaree, newly-appointed instructor in History...
Jerry W. Brown, Benjamin J. Cohn, William W. Freehling, John E. Gudeman, Lawrence M. Hartmann, James R. Lehrich, Eugene Lew, John Mendelsohn, Robert A. Meyers, John F. Post, Michael L. Rappaport, Frederick A. Rzewski, and Thomas K. Schwabacher were elected from Dunster House...