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Besides two Ogden Nash bonbons set to music by Norman Shapiro '51, Miss Wheeler's contemporary offerings included a pair of songs by Theodore Chanler. One of these, The Doves, is a poem by Leonard J. Feeney, a well-known Cambridge figure. It begins...
...Theodore Chanler's musical settings of eight epitaphs ranged from triteness to imaginative poignancy. Best of the lot were Ann Poverty and Be Very Quiet Now, terse expressions of complete resignation. Chanler, formerly a teacher at Longy, has an eclectic style that echoes everyone from Faure to Copland. He excels in simple melodic and harmonic patterns, but when he tries to be more elaborate the outcome is not always successful. Paul Matthen sang with restraint and delicacy, accompanied by the always competent Mr. Tucker...
...play opens on the Golden Wedding Anniversary celebration of Thomas and Emily Chanler in the drawing room of their Back Bay home. The gathering relatives give the impression that the Chanlers have been an exceedingly happy couple but that Thomas Chanler is something of a benevolent tyrant who at 70 still dictates the personal as well as business affairs of his large family. The time is then 1939, and for the remainder of the evening "I Know My Love" shuttles back and forth through the years of the Chanler's married life--1888, 1902, 1918, and 1920--to reveal that...
...indicate that Mr. Behrman has some thesis or other hiding behind the skirts of his winking Muse, but such is not the case. The plot of "I Know My Love" offers about as much opportunity for character-study as an hour with the old family album. What dimension the Chanler family has is due mainly to the embellishments given it by the actors...
...been removed, the whole play seems pretty muddled. There's a good supply of wit all right, but there are a couple of important characters who keep popping up during the play for the apparent purpose of showing that their lives have been ruined by Tom and Emily Chanler. Actually, the seeds of dissipation and destruction are within themselves, and the Chanlers, despite the accusations and confessions, are blameless...