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Daumier was the son of a Marseille glazier who wrote a little poetry on the side and who thought so much of his talent that in 1816 he decided to move himself and his family to Paris. At twelve, the glazier's son became a messenger boy for a process server's office and then a clerk for a bookstore-jobs that opened up to him every corner of Paris. He sketched everything he saw, finally started studying art with an academician whose idea of instruction was to have his pupils copy plaster casts hour after hour. "This...
...followed him home. His wife, Eurydice, however, is left bored by the proceedings, and Susan Howe lends much grace and a sort of charming coquetry to her attempts to snap Orpheus out of his infatuation with the horse. In another departure Cocteau introduces an entirely new character, a glazier named Heurtebise who shows up to replace the pane of glass which Eurydice breaks for good luck. Heurtebise is ultimately identified as a guardian angel to the couple, and Robert Jordan, always a fine actor, presents what is probably his most convincing characterization to date in this role...
Soon afterward Fred became a glazier in the Northumberland town of South Shields. With only an ancient cat named Dimpy for company, he settled down to a life of solitude punctuated only by occasional memories of the wife he had loved and the son he had lost. Then, one day this month. Fred was called in by a neighbor to fix a broken windowpane. Over the inevitable cup of tea, the lonely man, now 77, told his story. "Why, that's funny." said another neighbor who had dropped in. "I heard almost the same story from a bus conductor...
...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...
Other appointments include Myrl Duncan '54, Chairman of the Appointment Bureau Committee; Betsy Steiner '55 and Elizabeth Young '54, heads of volunteer work for the Community Service Committee, and Norma Glazier '54, and Grace Kennan '54, co-chairmen of fund raising for the same committee...