Word: fischers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Never Can Tell (by Bernard Shaw; produced by the Theatre Guild in association with Alfred Fischer) can't quite hide its late igth Century look or its early G.B.S. grin. A scrambly farce, it treats of modern-minded matrons separated from their husbands, children trying to track down their father, a penniless dentist wooing a would-be unromantic miss, a wise waiter whose son is a distinguished barrister. Shaw called You Never Can Tell a potboiler, and few-even of his admirers -would call it art. But though Shaw may seem to be writing down in it, actually...
Slavic 13. Advanced Reading. Half-course (spring term). Mon., Wed., Fri., at 10, Mr. Fischer...
...editorial which the latest issue contains, only two come from elsewhere than the Cambridge-Boston area. These two are a report of the Christian Socialist movement in Oxford by a student at that British university and a rather pessimistic study of the UN by ex-foreign correspondent Louis Fischer...
Jacob Coopersmith's definitive edition of Handel's mighty Messiah, newly published (Carl Fischer, Inc.; $1.25), was last week greeted by U.S. music scholars a one of the most important contribution of its kind in years. The Messiah, he had found, had never been properly performed since Handel's day. Original scores and pages had been misplaced. Performers and singers had arbitrarily changed notes, keys and instrumentation to suit their own peculiarities. Handel himself, who wrote the 3½-hour-long oratorio in one 24-day burst, had reworked it several times to accommodate the talents...
Dunces who have sung with the group since its inception are Walter E. Albrecht Jr. '49, Vivian, Thomas S. Langner '45, Thomas C. Fischer '46, John D. Kendall '45, Edward Prince '49, and James D. Dodge '44. Other contemporary Dunces are John B. Lister '50, James M. Robbins '48, John W. Wade '49, J. Peter Winkelstein '49, Thomas M. A. Schmid '49, Harry F. Booth '48, and Arthur S. Biddle...