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...Ariel of Jan Farrand is always light, and gay, as "it" should be. Miss Farrand is wise and nimble, and keeps within her character except one time when she briefly impersonated the goddess Ceres. Her Ariel is as pleasant as her zephyr-like voice. Ferdinand and Miranda, the ideal lovers, are ideally cast and suitably played by Miles Morgan and Naomi Raphaelson. Miss Raphaelson is particularly fetching, though her voice does not carry as it should, mainly through her voice does not carry as it should, mainly through her own weak projection. The Gonzale of Donald Stevens was well done...
...tour was part of an investment course for women thought up by Ferdinand C. Smith, resident partner of Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Beane, biggest U.S. brokerage house. "Ferd" Smith's office staff pooh-poohed the idea at first, but Smith argued that women, besides doing most of the spending in the U.S., have also become important owners of U.S. business. In many big corporations (U.S. Steel, General Motors, A.T. & T., etc.) women stockholders outnumber men. And sooner or later, most women have to take on the job of managing their husbands' estates. Yet few women are trained...
Other leads will be played by Jerome T. Kilty '50, who will act the part of Stephano, "a drunken butler," Miles Morgan '50, who will be seen as Ferdinand, son to the King of Naples, and David Andrews as Trincule, the jester...
...accept. It was a great moment for both their nations. After ten years of crises, discouragements and setbacks, France's and Egypt's money had finally driven the canal through from the Mediterranean to the Red Sea, and it was Eugénie's own cousin, Ferdinand de Lesseps, who had seen the job through. To celebrate the opening, the Khedive had brought together 500 of the best cooks and 1,000 servants from Marseille, Trieste and Genoa. For the diversion of the expected guests, an open-air opera house had been built near the Great Pyramid...
...Rhine. The De Wendels have been among Europe's armorers for centuries. Their home is Lorraine, a land perennially contested by France and Germany. One of the early members of the family was Johann Georg von Wendel, a colonel in the armies of the Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand III (1608-57). His son Christian changed his name to De Wendel. The De Wendels always had enough Von Wendels on the other side of the Rhine to keep their properties in the family. Christian de Wendel's grandson, Ignace, forged arms for both sides during the French Revolution. Ignace...