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Tuttle, a graduate of Denison College in Grandville, Ohio, was also an authority on other kinds of music history, and he was responsible for editing and transcribing most of the works of William Byrd, including the Tuttle Collection...
Though now a specialist in English history, Owen started late in his field. As an undergraduate at Denison University, Granville, Ohio, he had "delusions of being a scientist," took geology under Kirtley Mather, and changed his mind abruptly after a near-disastrous chemistry course. Graduating in 1920, Owen had earned a Ph.B., which he describes as a "bastard degree for philosophers who lack a knowledge of Greek." From Denison he went to Yale, received a doctorate and became an instructor, but it was ten years before he began to teach English History. "I sort of backed into it," he says...
...Parsons was educated at Denison University and the Andover Newton Theological School...
...picture, Landfall has remarkably little action. Instead, it concentrates on characterization, and its people, from admirals to air-raid wardens, are al ways plausible. The lieutenant (Michael Denison) is no idealized figure; he is young, cocky and rather callow. The unglamorous Portsmouth barmaid (Patricia Plunkett) with whom he falls in love is as ordinary as their romance. Director Ken (Robin Hood) Annakin has made Land fall into a simple, straightforward, almost old-fashioned story with some richly convincing detail. By making real and affecting both the fallibility and the nobility of ordinary people in a time of crisis, the film...
...comedy of manners to the screen for the first time, is a highly stylized, dryly amusing production. The British-made film is faithful to Wilde's play, which is a triumph of triviality: Playboy Jack Worthing (Michael Redgrave) loves Gwendolen Fairfax (Joan Greenwood), whose cousin, Algernon Moncrieff (Michael Denison), loves Jack's ward, Cecily Cardew (Dorothy Tutin). But because of Jack's ignoble habit of representing himself as his imaginary brother Earnest and Algy's adoption of Earnest's name and wicked reputation to speed his courtship of Cecily, both girls believe them selves...