Word: davidson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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EDWARD LEAR-Angus Davidson- Dutton...
...Lear meant a big fat Book of Nonsense with a gilt cat bowing a bull fiddle on the cover. Inside were such "queery Leary" drawings and poems as the Owl and the Pussy-Cat,† The Moppsikon Floppsikon Bear, The Dong with the Luminous Nose. Last week Author Angus Davidson took this nonsensical Englishman seriously enough to publish his first biography...
...Aunt"), Lear once shared a farmhouse studio. Close friends of Lear were Poet Laureate Alfred Lord Tennyson and his wife, with whom Lear had his closest feminine friendship. But Mathematician Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) is so carefully unmentioned in Lear's long letters and diary that Author Davidson thinks Lear may have been jealous of the author of Alice in Wonderland...
...often. The music was occasionally too loud, and the articulation not always clear. But these were only minor defects in a well-molded whole for which Directors Bernstein and Szathmary deserve considerable credit Miss. Mann's singing of "Nickel under the Foot" was delightful, the acting of Donald Davidson and Kendall Smith quite professional. By and large "The Cradle Will Rock" was an impressive example of modern folk opera. The special performance this week deserves to be as weld-received...
...Donald Davidson '39, who played the lead in the Classical Club's recent presentation of Aristophanes' "Birds," will play the role of Larry Foreman. The entire dramatics personae is made up of "type" names, the scene of the action being "Steel town...