Word: dunne
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...easily the most competent acting job of the performance. Made up to resemble Shaw to an almost uncanny degree, he played the caustic, detached sceptic to perfection. The senile captain is the author's caricature of himself as a bitterly disappointed old man. In sharp contrast is Mazzini Dunn, an ineffective 19th century liberal, whose mealy-mouthed idealism is fit only for the parlor. Earl Montgomery played this part with skill and with a consistency notably lacking in many of the roles. Basil Langton's direction of this difficult play was on the whole uninspired, as were the settings...
...short, very serious, middle-aged man came to this room where he received the congratulations and good wishes of many professors, students, and other Cambridge residents. He was the creator of these many, varied works of art. However, art was just one of his many avocations; John Morris Dunn was a janitor in Mallinckrodt...
...Today, Dunn is still to be found cleaning windows and sweeping floors in the chem labs, but when his work is done he returns to the creative world. At home he paints in his attic studio, grinds lenses and mirrors for the telescopes and telescope cameras he is constructing, tinkers with his radio transmitter and other electronic creations, or practices on one of the magnificent violins he has built...
...grandson of an escaped slave, Dunn was born in a log house in Salem. New Jersey. From early childhood, he showed a great interest in art, which he "first studied from nature." While in primary school, he was taught draftsmanship and coloring by an artist friend. After he graduated from grammar school, his father, a Delaware River fisherman sent him to the Drexel Institute in Philadelphia where he studied stone masonry. After this trade school, followed several years of training in a scattering of Philadelphia and Boston art schools. To finance this schooling. Dunn worked during the summer on farms...
...Dunn's goal in life is to set a good example for his people, he has not been discouraged by the menial jobs he has had to take; in each, he has simply tried to do his best. Quite naturally, though, he resents the fact that "They'll teach you, then give you no opportunity to use the training." This was the case with him during the first World War, when, as a licensed radio operator with a white friend for the greatly needed post of radio operator in the Navy. He was told that "the Navy doesn't make...