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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Death by the Window. When General Manager Rudolf Bing decided to overhaul Carmen last spring, he handed the staging job to Tyrone Guthrie, topnotch director of London's Old Vic, and Designer Rolf Gerard. From the start, they decided on "naturalism," e.g., the workers in a Seville cigarette factory ought to look, for a change, a bit like factory workers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Alley-Cat Carmen | 2/11/1952 | See Source »

...centuries, Britain's poets have sung of Oxford's "dreaming spires"; but they have done some worrying about them, too. Shops and factories have been creeping in upon the spires like jungle weed-"a base and brickish skirt," cried Gerard Manley Hopkins in 1879, that "sours that neighbor-nature thy grey beauty is grounded best in . . ." Last week the base and brickish skirt was creating a bitterer furor than ever. The center of the storm: the Oxford and District...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Intolerable Intruder | 1/21/1952 | See Source »

...around in the Christmas crush, getting exactly the right kind of wine glasses; he set his famed actress wife Lynn Fontanne to sewing lace hankies for "my girls," later, sent her backstage to perk up one discouraged singer with a little flattery. He huddled for hours with Designer Rolf Gerard on how to frame chamber-sized Così in the yawning spaces of the Met's big stage. Gerard's solution: a chamber-sized stage contrived by drapes and latticed arches, brilliantly simple sets in handsome pastels and white...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Mozart at the Met | 1/7/1952 | See Source »

...GERARD LANGLOIS Quebec-City, Canada...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 24, 1951 | 12/24/1951 | See Source »

Cincinnati, Ohio, December 27; Secretary: J. Gerard Heathcote, M.B.A. '23, 1331 Carew Tower, Cincinnati...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 19 Harvard Clubs to Sponsor Xmas Parties for Students | 12/20/1951 | See Source »

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