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...James Dolbear also fails as Nora's tyrannical husband Thomas, unnecessarily Americanized from Ibsen's Torvald. His mugging and blustering gives the character a sort of musical comedy quality; a cute shallowness. His tone never changes. He's not believable for a second as an ambitious, willful man, tortured by the demands of respectability--he's just a sissy, a bone-headed dolt...

Author: By Jacob V. Lamar, | Title: Child's Play | 4/22/1981 | See Source »

...Tufts University, Dr. Amos Emerson Dolbear is credited with having invented the telephone, and with having made the first telephone call in history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 16, 1959 | 3/16/1959 | See Source »

...claims of Meucci, Gray, Reis, Dolbear and numerous others were all fought out in the courts. The Bell patents were upheld in 1888 by the U.S. Supreme Court...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 16, 1959 | 3/16/1959 | See Source »

Samuel Hood Dolbear, globe-trotting mining engineer. His job: chromium specialist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Draft on Business | 7/1/1940 | See Source »

...Electrical Club. Physical Conceptions of Electrical Phenomena. Professor A. C. Dolbear, or Tufts. Pierce Lecture Hall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University Calendar. | 1/5/1903 | See Source »

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