Word: ethane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Those speaking, who were selected in the trials two weeks ago are: Norman L. Cahners '37, Thomas Stephenson '37. Arthur A. Ballantine, Jr. '36. William T. Dean, Jr. '37, Ethan A. Dennison, Jr. '37; James B. Hallett '37. Paul Killiam, Jr. '37. Edward O. Miller '37. Edward M. Rabenold, Jr. '37, A. Gilman Sullivan '36, and John A. Sullivan...
There are men who are already earning their living. John Cromwell has appeared in "The Old Maid"; W. Dana Hardwick has just made his theatrical debut in "Ethan Frome"; Timothy Fuller is about to have a detective story published by Little, Brown & Co.; Thomas H. Dowd, Jr. is a second lieutenant in the 315th cavalry of the United States Army; and H. B. Jones is a professional piano tuner...
Feeling that the expense of paying for uneaten meals causes a large percent of men to desert the House plan every year, Ethan A. Dennison, Jr. '37 is circulating a petition through the various Houses in an attempt to create a new "seven breakfast" plan in the dining rooms...
When the play's big moment comes, the curtain parts to reveal a snowy New England hilltop, winterset and blue-white under cold bright stars. Ethan (Raymond Massey) climbs to the top of it, his boots actually squeaking in the glittery surface. Pathetic little Mattie (Ruth Gordon) lies down on the sled with him and, with a whistle of wind, they vanish over the far side of the slope. How they maim themselves, instead of smashing out their lives on the big tree at the bottom as they intended, is told in an epilog...
Novelist Wharton wrote a painful book. Her story of how Ethan and young Mattie, trying to escape the nagging claims of Ethan's sickly wife, become instead dependent on her attentions for the rest of their lives, is presented relentlessly, a bitter frieze of figures on a frozen ground. On stage, Ethan Frome is not quite so painful. The Davises have had some mercy on the wife Zenobia, probably because, as Miss Wharton originally wrote it. the part would not have fitted the compassionate stage manner of Pauline Lord. This reorientation of Zenobia required a general softening...