Word: danae
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dana Palmer house ain't where it used to be. Four years ago the yellow clapboard building stood right in the middle of what is now Lamont. By the spring of 1947 it had been uprooted and towed across Quiney Street to its present spot between the Union and the Faculty Club, missing only a wing which stayed behind to become headquarters for the Fuller Construction Company. A year later, the house opened as a guest house for distinguished visitors to the University...
...Dana Palmer house was built in 1823. It got the first part of its name from the builders, the Dana family, who lived there for ten years. Richard Henry Dana, the author of "Two Years before the Mast," grew up in the house; his chum James Russell Lowell once tried to ride a pony up the front stairs...
...initiative, the astronomer's "caboose" was finally taken off the roof and some of the interior remodelled. Dean Gummere used the building for a few years before the war, and after Pearl Harbor, when the Navy moved into President Conant's house, President Conant moved into the Dana Palmer house. He moved out just before it migrated across Quincy Street...
...course, the individual actors must get their applause. Henry Fonda, Dana Andrews and William Eythe were probably better than in most of their other pictures. Andrews was exceptionally good in the lynching scene itself. The whole mob, for that matter, formed a brilliant supporting cast...
...this slate-smooth hide & seek, there is so much daydreamy standing around that everyone seems to get captured at least twice. Under George Sherman's direction, the picture moves with somnambulist deliberateness and Dana Andrews continues his ponderous new style of acting like a mutinous galley slave. The other principals behave in harrowing situations like mechanical toys that need winding. A new actor, Jeff Chandler, registers a slow magnetic power similar to Gregory Peck's, and is apt to become at least half as popular. Stephen McNally, oddly the only one in the movie who tries...