Word: copeau
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tunis' celebrated Class of 1911 at Harvard (TIME, Sept. 14) though he "never spoke to a living soul" while he was there, returned to his native Manhattan to join the Washington Square Players, drove an ambulance in Italy in the War, stage-managed in Paris for Jacques Copeau, returned to the U. S. to act in Greek tragedies, work in a publishing house. Three years ago he published a graphic, scholarly presentation of four Renaissance figures (The Man of the Renaissance, TIME, Dec. 4, 1933). Longer (629 pp.), less brilliant, Catherine de' Medici is also more ambitious, seeks...
...graduated from Harvard in 1911 but cannot remember any of his classmates because he "never spoke to a living soul." Before the U. S. entered the War he volunteered, drove an ambulance with the Italian Army. After two post-War years in Paris as stage manager for Jacques Copeau and an abortive attempt to start a U. S. newspaper in Rome, he went back to Manhattan, got a job in Brentano's publishing house, married Fania Mindell, theatrical scene designer. Piqued by thoughts of Savonarola, Author Roeder wrote and published a book about him but was disappointed with...
...history, gave it up before the War to write a play, poetry and novel. (His grandmother wrote children's books, his mother was a novelist.) With André Gide, he helped found La Nonvelle Revue Française, which published both Night Flight and Saint Saturnin. With Jacques Copeau. he founded the theatre of the Vieux-Colombier which produced two of his own plays...