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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ORDEAL OF BRIDGET ELIA-Ernest C. Ross-University of Oklahoma...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Lamb's Sister | 7/15/1940 | See Source »

...Lamb became a devout Mohammedan. Even then her nerves were high-strung: she was much upset when her Grandmother Field remained an Unbeliever. But Mary soon found a new interest: from the names on gravestones she began teaching her younger brother, Charles, the future author of the Essays of Elia, his letters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Lamb's Sister | 7/15/1940 | See Source »

...Charles & Mary, "weeping together and walking arm in arm toward the asylum." At other times, theirs was a far from unhappy life. As pieced together by Biographer Ross from the Lamb literary remains, from scraps of correspondence, there is little ordeal in the day-to-day doings of Bridget Elia (Lamb's literary name for his sister). What emerges is a singularly tender brother-&-sister relationship, of much charm, grace, fortitude, patience. In her long lucid intervals, Mary Lamb led a lively life: The Ordeal of Bridget Elia is a lively record...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Lamb's Sister | 7/15/1940 | See Source »

...play will be directed by David P. Sheppard '40, while William M. Fletcher '30 will play the leading role of Honorable Alan Howard. Elia Van Horn, Radcliffe '43 will take the feminine lead, supported by Mary C. Wells '43 and Lois Greiser...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Winthrop House Announces Play, "French Without Tears" | 3/20/1940 | See Source »

...falsetto, Odets still talks like Odets, can still be ardent, can still make a line ring out like a pistol shot, or a phrase cut like a knife to the bone. There are genuinely vivid and pulsing scenes in Night Music; and at least the hero (admirably played by Elia Kazan) is thoroughly alive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Mar. 4, 1940 | 3/4/1940 | See Source »

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