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...manage beautifully." Her working plans include doing most of her writing in bed ("I hardly ever get up, unless there is some party which I think I will enjoy wildly"), and perhaps suggesting an idea or two on color schemes ("I know of a wonderful Elizabethan color called 'dead Spaniard,' but I can't remember whether it's brown...
Like all female parts in the Elizabethan theater, invariably played by teen-age boys...
...almost feudal." Even the unofficial Church of England Newspaper asked: "Why not let everybody see it who can? The monarchy in this country is not an underground movement." The Socialist Daily Herald huffed that "the ban reflects a stuffiness of mind utterly inappropriate to the 'new Elizabethan...
...York World-Telegram reporter, assigned to investigate the working conditions of Remington Rand's new $100,000-a-year Board Chairman Douglas Mac-Arthur, finally found the place, a "Tudor castle" on a 30-acre estate near Rowayton, Conn. He found the general comfortably settled in an Elizabethan-type 25-by-40-foot office. Asked how he liked his new job, the Old Soldier answered: "I'm doing fine, sir; I like it fine." Surprised at the presence of a reporter, President Rand asked if he had an appointment. "No," said the general, "he just crashed the gate...
Finley points out the second chief House characteristic--that the house members seem to produce much talent. Eliot seems to go in for men who can write, paint, or act (as its always entertaining Christmas Elizabethan play proves). The academic standards, naturally always high, are not a primary consideration, although last year Eliot topped all other Houses in honors. Both '51 Rhodes scholars, both Scholarships to Cambridge (the Lionel de Jersey Harvard, and the Fiske Grants), one out of three Henry scholarships, and five out of six Bowdoin prizes went to Eliot men, although mark-wise the House...