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Machine age esthetic stimuli are found in straight forward, business like buildings, where our Victorian grand parents insisted on gingerbread ornament from which to drape their tendrils of memory and affection." The sentimental Victorian distinction between "architecture" and "Building" no longer prevails for the modernist...
Escape Me Never! That her first U. S. audience could not go quite so far as to drape over Elizabeth Bergner's slim shoulders the accumulated mantles of Terry, Duse & Bernhardt was no reflection on her very considerable talents. It does not take much of a play to provide a proper vehicle for an authentic diva. The less dramaturgy there is to distract attention from the star, many a leading lady feels, the better. But Playwright Kennedy's tale about the musical Sangers, a faintly connected sequel to her Constant Nymph, is practically no play at all. Every...
...months the trustees of the University of Rochester have been dangling a rich prize before the eyes of U. S. educators. In a search for a successor to President Rush Rhees they examined the qualifications of no less than 101 candidates. Last week they voted to drape the presidential mantle over the husky shoulders of Alan Chester Valentine, 33-year-old Master of Yale's Pierson College...
...content with this list of distinguishing characteristics, the gentleman must needs become a philosopher, and will drape himself in a chair and discourse by the hour, and entertainingly, too, on anything from the late Mr. Napoleon to the publicity drives of the local humorous publication. Enhanced by rhetorical jerks and gestures, these impromptu orations are nothing if not picturesque, and show evidence of deep and clear thought...
TROILUS & CRESSIDA - Geoffrey Chaucer; Englished anew by George Philip Krapp-Random House ($3.50). Geoffrey Chaucer (circa 1340-1400), whom posterity has agreed to call a pretty poet, has had his ups & downs. Many a lesser man, making light of Chaucer's archaic English, has tried to re-drape his sturdy uncouthness in modern dress. 17th-century Poet John Dryden ("Chaucer, I confess, is a rough Diamond; and must first be polish'd e'er he shines") was one. Latest is Columbia Professor George Philip Krapp. Partly because new books are scarce around Christmastime, partly because Random House...