Word: frome
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Fromex was started by Dr. Bruce Frome, a Los Angeles anesthesiologist who also develops condominiums, and his wife Dede, a fashion designer. Two years ago, a cousin visiting Toronto returned to Los Angeles with tales of a Japanese processor that turned out color prints within an hour. Intrigued, the Fromes bought the equipment for $125,000 and installed it in the window of a store in Encino...
Some English 70 veterans doubtless remember Ethan Frome, Edith Wharton's dark and dour New England novel whose poetry lies in the starkness of its prose and of the events that torture its three main characters. The same people might have looked askance at the posters that said Ethan Frome was going up at the Ex. How do you dramatize a book like that? "You do think of it as something to read, not see," allows producer Dorothea Hanson...
...Frome is going up this weekend, the first of the Ex's six shows. The adaptation (by Donald and Owen Davis) is little-known, though it was successful on Broadway in the 1930s and again on a rief tour in the '70s But while those productions demanded an elaborate naturalistic set--not the Ex's style, to be sure--director Bill Rausch is exploring the effects of gray paint and suspended bare trees (borrowed from the Harvard Forest) to create the "cold, stagnant environment where nothing ever changes"--the one usually associated with Wharton's spare style...