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Still catching up on Battle-of-Britain bomb damage, Eton last week dedicated a splendid new window for its cherished 15th century chapel, but it was hardly the kind of window old Etonians might have expected...
...Silly. The maker of Eton's new window was no Eastern craftsman, but a frail, schoolmarmish Dublin spinster named Evie Hone, who, at 58, is considered one of the top stained-glass artists of her time. Evie started out as a painter of fair-to-middling abstractions, but quit when she decided "it was leading nowhere." One day she visited a Dublin stained-glass works and asked if she could do a window. "They told her not to be silly. Evie Hone stamped angrily home, did one on her own for a rural church, and has been...
...Final O.K. The rest of the time, Evie Hone works intently in her bare-floored, glass-littered studio, sketching out her windows, painting the glass with her own color formulas, finally supervising the glazier who leads in the thousands of pieces. Her Eton window was so big (40,000 pieces) that she never saw it together until workmen set it in the grey-ribbed chapel. For the best part of a fortnight, Evie sat in the chapel, stared fixedly at her window, considered and rejected a change or two. Finally, she pronounced...
...most part, Eton agreed with Evie and the critics. A few hard-shelled old-liners thought the colors "a bit loud." But mostly, Eton found its brilliant new window a refreshing change from tradition. Evie had wanted to do two more small windows for the chapel to balance her big piece. By last week Eton had told Evie to get to work...
Collegiate opponents are about as hard to find as good American players. Haverford is the oldest--it's had cricket teams since its founding in 1833, and probably has the nearest thing to the "playing fields of Eton" on this side of the Atlantic...