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Almost at once Marilyn found friends in the theater-Cheryl Crawford, Elia Kazan, the Strasbergs, Arthur Miller, Norman and Hedda Rosten, Maureen Stapleton. "For the first time," she says, "I felt accepted, not as a freak, but as myself." She showed a nice talent for painting (watercolors), and she read aloud from poems she could hardly understand. Friends sent her to the Actors Studio. After about six months of study and exercise, she finally worked up courage to do a 20-minute scene from Anna Christie before the other students, many of them practiced professionals. They praised her work...
...Francis Boott Prize has been given to John C. Crawford 1G for a composition for mixed chorus and strings, entitled "Magnificat." The prize, open to all University students, is awarded to the composer of the best composition in concerted vocal music. It must be between three and eight parts, and require not more than ten minutes for performance...
John Charlton Crawford, a first year student in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, has been awarded the Francis Boott Prize for 1955-56. He receieved the award and a prize of $100 for a composition for mixed chorus and strings, entitled "Magnificat...
Beautiful and sad, the Lamente Della Ninfa, sung by Sarah-Jane Smith, the Nymph, and a supporting Chorus including Malcolm Ticknor, John Crawford, and Thomas Beveridge. Miss Smith interpreted her plaintive melodies very expressively, while the deep-voiced Chorus provided rich contrast. The form of this work, that of a Greek Play in miniature, is truly Renaissance, but the feeling is so direct and unrestrained as to anticipate later eras...
...owners of their products, and in return for United Artist assistance, share their profits with the company. Among those who have taken advantage of the United Artist idea: Rita Hayworth, Hecht-Lancaster, Stanley Kramer, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Robert Mitchum, Otto Preminger, Frank Sinatra, Jane Russell, Orson Welles, Joan Crawford, Kirk Douglas, Errol Flynn, Abbott and Costello, Cary Grant. Reasons for liking the U.A. formula: i) U.A. does not interfere in production, 2) the artist can make a lot of money, 3) because of capital gains, he can keep...