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...John Houseman had been told they were hired to put on "The Mercury Theatre on the Air" (also known as "First Person Singular") as a nine-week summer re-placement in the Lux slot, Monday nights from 9 to 10 on CBS. So they scurried for a property, chose Bram Stoker?s epistolary novel "Dracula" and, in an all - night cut - and - paste session at Reuben?s Deli, assembled the adaptation. The pressure isn?t evident in the show, but the furious energy is. From the first minutes, which turned Jonathan Harker?s trip to Castle Dracula into a symphony...
...Thomas Edison, the man who electrified Manhattan) were allowed to sell their power-generation businesses and become middlemen that buy electricity on the open market from new generator operators and distribute it to their customers. "We work hard to find the best deal for our customers," says Steve Bram, Con Ed's senior vice president of central operations. "But we're at the mercy of the sellers." Those sellers, on the other hand, are at the mercy of--wow!--no one, and with capacity shortages driving up unregulated wholesale prices as much as 50 to 100 times the normal rate...
According to Rosenbaum, over 20 campus organizations are working in conjunction with RUS to put on the week's activities. These include the Undergraduate Council, the Institute of Politics, Philips Brooks House Association, University Health Services and various ethnic and counseling organizations.CrimsonHenry G. WeiAuthor CHIRSTOPHER BRAM reads from his new book, Gossip, at Dudley House yesterday...
...films can be made for $7 million (Desperado) or less than a million (Living in Oblivion). They may be based on plays (Jeffrey, from Paul Rudnick's comedy) or novels (Nadja, from Bram Stoker's Dracula). The stars may be esteemed actors (Gabriel Byrne and Kevin Spacey in The Usual Suspects) or the director's girlfriend (Maxine Bahns in The Brothers McMullen). Some sing, the others don't. But all prove that films can be intimate as well as epic, that off-Hollywood is one destination for films of the next century...
These are old-fashioned virtues. Indeed, without Ryder the movies might have forgotten them. And that is why Hollywood has virtually ceded the 19th century to her. In Bram Stoker's Dracula, in The Age of Innocence and now in director Gillian Armstrong's stately, shimmering version of Little Women, Ryder must translate for a modern audience the purity and confusions of a time when a first kiss was the climax to an adventure and goodness was a goal worth fighting...