Word: bostonians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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History's greatest specialist in creating stage comedy, Moliere, has been chosen for the inaugural production of a newly formed theatrical group, the Actors Playhouse of Boston, Inc. The players are making use of an intimate and attractive gree-and-gold theatre designed by Raymond Sovey in the Hotel Bostonian, and tailored to accommodate an audience of ninety-five...
...Actors Playhouse, Inc. will present the comedy "George Dandin, the Harassed Husband" in a production directed by Samuel Hirsch, who, with Alan J. Levitt, founded the group. The Playhouse makes use of a freshly furnished, air-conditioned, and intimate (95- seat) theatre in the Hotel Bostonian...
...hotel, the Cavendish was no place for the unsuspecting tourist. Most strangers who ventured into the dim, cluttered lobby at 82 Jermyn Street were sternly told to try elsewhere. Others, if they were lucky enough to remind the proprietress of some long-vanished Victorian buck or Bostonian pooh-bah, would be clasped to her shapely bosom and regaled with surrealistic reminiscences about old Lord Droopy Drawers and Lady You-Know-'Oo, or "the time we went to Ireland on roller skates...
...shown embracing his mother, became Lord Chancellor of England. One of his sisters (at right, in the painting) devoted her life to him, dying a spinster at the age of 95. The other, Elizabeth, the determined little figure standing in the center, went back to America. She married a Bostonian, as did her daughter Martha, who, as Mrs. Charles Amory,* took possession of the painting in 1864 and brought it back to Boston with her. It was from the Amory family that the gallery bought...
...hearty, pipe-smoking man of 54, Cambridge-born Tom Eliot was never much of a proper Bostonian anyway. A son of Samuel A. Eliot, the famed Unitarian minister, he pronounced himself a Democrat at the age of ten. He alone voted for Woodrow Wilson in a class poll at Browne and Nichols School, and after earning a magna cum laude in government at Harvard in 1928 and a Harvard law degree in 1932, he enlisted in F.D.R.'s New Deal.* As a Labor Department lawyer, Blueblood Democrat Eliot helped arbitrate the San Francisco general strike in 1934. As general...