Word: edmonds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When after five weeks of rehearsal, the two plays are presented at Brattle Hall, Henry P. Robbins '48 will appear as Oedipus and E. Edmond Ayres 8th, '48, will take the role of Creon...
...Edmond Louis Garesche...
Real hero of Lute Song is famed, all-too-infrequently busy Scene Designer Robert Edmond Jones (Emperor Jones, Green Pastures), whose sets and costumes are often things of splendor. They tremendously enhance the movement as well as the looks of the play-the wedding and burial scenes, the exotic dances, a captivating Imperial March. The best of Composer Scott's incidental music has color also, and one or two of the little songs he has written for Mary Martin have a reedy charm. Actress Martin, straying far from the My Heart Belongs to Daddy sort of singing that made...
...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...