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...production is one of the best Boston has seen in years, despite a somewhat obtrusive score by Raymond Scott. John Houseman's direction and Robert Edmond Jones; scenery, costumes, and lighting are both intelligent and imaginative; the contrast between settings and costumes is almost a throwback to Elizabethan times, for where producer Michael Myerberg has spent a fortune of a wide assortment of gaudy costumes, the scenery is composed almost entirely of various curtain backdrops...
...answer lies in Mielziner's versatility, resourcefulness, taste, feeling for detail. He may not have the creative power of such an old master as Robert Edmond Jones, the freshness of up-&-coming George Jenkins, the occasional witty elegance of Howard Bay. But he is seldom commonplace. To Writer Djuna Barnes his unique gift is "to lay age upon his settings," give them "a rich patina of occupancy...
...freckled, 33-year-old spinster, with a big nose and intense brown eyes, felt drawn to Mohandas Gandhi after reading a book about him. She was Madeline Slade, daughter of British Admiral Sir Edmond Slade. She left England to join Gandhi, became his personal attendant, took the name of Miraben (Sister Mira) from the Rajput Princess Mira who abandoned all to follow the Hindu god Krishna. Miraben was jailed twice for her part in the civil disobedience movement...
Your otherwise excellent story on Jap surrenders-"A Bubble Bursts" [TIME, Sept. 10]-was dead wrong on one point. Yamashita did not surrender to General Wainwright but to Major General Edmond H. Leavey, Chief of Staff of the Army Forces in the Western Pacific, who was acting for Lieut. General W. D. ("Fat") Styer, commanding general AFWESPAC...
...Office is primarily for the College, Teele stated. Most of the graduate schools have their own placement offices, he said, indicating the Business School's Office, run by Dean Edmond F. Wright, as a primary example...