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Kuhn has developed the Busch-Reisinger from a museum "hopelessly Edwardian" in tone, full of plaster casts of German statuary, into a "remarkably unique collection of original Germanic art," John P. Coolidge '35, Director of the Fogg Museum, said yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Busch-Reisinger's Kuhn to Retire After 38 Years as Museum Head | 3/26/1968 | See Source »

...Edwardian England, an orphan named Kipps (Tommy Steele) finds a little girl on his waif length (Julia Foster). Before their friendship can mature, he is sent to far away London as an apprentice to a scrofulous Shylock. Kipps owns nothing in life but a sixpence, which he splits with his girl; he will come back to her, he promises, as soon as he can. But when his grandfather dies and leaves him a fortune, he forgets his vow and falls for a wealthy, beautiful snob. Can Kipps really be such a cad? Of course not. In the end, he loses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Half a Sixpence | 3/1/1968 | See Source »

...trotted out regularly; last week The Importance of Being Earnest opened with Dame Flora Robson, and Hay Fever opens this week. Producers have even harked back to such antiques as The Bells, a Victorian melodrama in which Sir Henry Irving made his reputation, and John Galsworthy's hoary Edwardian relic, Justice, a preachy treatise on crime and punishment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In London: End of a Golden Age? | 2/16/1968 | See Source »

...course catalogue lists History 144b, "England in the Twentieth Century," as "an investigation of political, social, and intellectual change from the Edwardian era to the Welfare State...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Move Over, Victoria: Billy Shears Is Here | 2/7/1968 | See Source »

...reflecting miles of gilded plaster. Magnificence had become largely a semi-public affair, as in Queen Victoria's railway carriage (sapphire satin and tasseled draperies with a white quilted ceiling) and not merely ostentatious, as in the dining room at London's Ritz Hotel ("the most beautiful Edwardian restaurant in existence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Seasonal Shelf | 12/15/1967 | See Source »

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