Word: dunton
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with fast and clever gimmicks. Chumley has mastered an idiot grin, and cartwheels admirably across the stage. Miss Bush and her counterpart Dame Chat (Joan Tolentino) scream too much, but their grimaces and multicolor petticoats (Lewis Smith's costuming is superb) more than compensate. In smaller parts, David Dunton as a myopic curate is the only actor to read, rather than chant his lines, and his care pays off in laughs. Ed Jay, Jr., as a sleepy Linus-figure with a patchwork blanket, is trapped in his one sight gag, but is pleasant enough...
...play with so little subtlety--as far as I'm concerned so little truth--perhaps the best the minor actors can do is make their characters interesting. But David Dunton, as Sir Hugo Slate, is only conventionally stuffy. And Johanna Madden, as Mary Dean, is more cheaply attractive, more easily written off, than necessary...
First Lieutenant James G. Dunton '62 was killed in action yesterday morning in South Vietnam. A resident of Winthrop House while at Harvard, Dunton graduated cum laude in history before going into the Army. He is survived by his parents and wife, Brenda, who live in Melrose, Massachusetts...
...relationship-with Music Hall Actress Adah Isaacs Menken-ended after six weeks. "I can't make Algernon understand," she ruefully explained, "that biting's no use." Eventually, he retired to the country for his health under the care of a proper Victorian solicitor-scholar named Theodore Watts-Dunton. And the world, learning that his poetic passions had been mainly pastiche, soon decided his passionate poetry was merely overblown...
...book is fragmentary, largely because Friend and Guardian Watts-Dunton stole the most purple chapters from Swinburne and would not give them back. Wilson laments the loss, through Victorian prudery, of a potential English prose master who might have done great things if encouraged. Bits of Lesbia Brandon justify his claim...