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...through the same type of romance that Alison had, saves the poems for the world. It's as banal as that. To make matters worse it has some totally unactable lines, such as one that one of the members of the family utters as he reads the new poems, Eben (low, and in beautiful excitement), "Why that bird sang thirty years ago--and sings now." Despite all this, Alison's House won the Pulitzer Prize in 1931. The original production must have been awfully good. As for the present production, the punishment fits the crime...
Boston Merchant Prince Eben D. Jordan put up $700,000 for the building, agreed to support a company for three years if other nabobs bought $150,000 worth of stock. London Impresario Henry Russell became managing director, hired some of the top singers of the day. In its first 15-week season, the Boston Opera House staged 21 works, and the Transcript commented: "In Boston, grand opera is now endorsed by all the churches, and attendance at the opera places no one's morals under suspicion...
...modern-day woodchuck roundup. None of the people in The Marmot Drive like each other very much to begin with. When Hester comes up from New York for a weekend at the out-of-the-way small town of Tunxis, Conn., it is to meet the family of Eben, a moody young fellow she has taken up with in the big city. What Hester and Eben have not been told is that Selectman Matthew Avered, Eben's father, has organized a two-day drive to rid the neighborhood of a plague of wood-chucks. Nothing will do but that...
...confused with Charles E. (for Edward) Wilson, former president of General Electric, who resigned last March as Director of Defense Mobilization, after a row with Harry Truman, or with Charles E. (for Eben) Wilson, onetime vice president of Worthington Pump & Machinery Corp. Only common complaint of the Charles E. Wilsons: the mailman often mixed up their dividend checks...
...affirmative will be Bartley Crum, a New York lawyer who was a member of the Anglo American Committee on Inquiry of Palestine and is the former owner of PM newspaper, and Rev. Karl Baehr, executive secretary of the American Christian Palestine Committee. They are replacing Israeli Ambassador Aubrey S. Eben who cancelled his engagement...