Word: brides
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...left the group produced The Moon Is a Gong, by John Dos Passos '16, who had written nothing worthy of production during his years as an undergraduate. In 1934 it put on Jean Cocteau's The Infernal Machine, the same year it presented the American premiere of A Bride for the Unicorn, by Denis Johnston, a noisy and risque comedy putting the story of the Golden Fleece in modern setting...
...production of A Bride for the Unicorn was one of the few instances where the HDC was troubled by censorship. Theoretically, all the plays which it produced, until a few years ago, had to be approved by the group's faculty advisory committee. Normally this committee would decide which of a number of plays to produce. But in 1934, President Conant requested to read A Bride for the Unicorn and decide whether or not it was too risque to produce. The play squeaked through the committee, 3 to 2, but President Ada of to appear in it. Undaunted, the Dramatic...
...takes an Egyptian child bride as a favor to Napoleon, who dreams of founding a new dynasty and a new race in the Middle East. But the French are halted at Acre, plague decimates their ranks, the fellahin reject Enlightenment for the savage joys of Holy War against the Christian dogs. Napoleon is defeated by fate, and Rémi by Corinne. Author McKenney, who has spent nearly four years in writing Mirage, tells her complicated story in an elliptic, literary shorthand that conveys much information quickly but will be the despair of some readers. Nearly every page is scattered...
Very baffling, thought Attorney David A. Weyer. A practicing lawyer for only two years, he had taken on his first criminal case and lost it. Violet Sill, 34, a bride of 15 months, had confessed, been tried and found guilty of manslaughter, had been sentenced to 20 years in prison. She had fired the shotgun that killed her tavern-owner husband Marion; this was incontrovertible. Yet for 34-year-old Dave Weyer, who had once worked in a children's psychiatric clinic, Violet Sill's continued insistence on her own guilt raised the suspicion that something was wrong...
Family & Early Life: Greatgrandfather was a political émigré who fled Austrian rule in Italy after Napoleonic Wars, settled down in England in Lamb House, Rye (later the home of Novelist Henry James) with his bride, a cousin of Queen Victoria's first Prime Minister, Lord Melbourne. Young Harold Caccia (pronounced Catch-a) went to Eton, graduated from Trinity College, Oxford...