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Alice B. Toklas, 20th century Boswell, confidante, and incidentally, author of a remarkable cookbook, eventually got her can opener. When she heard of the prospective production of The Mother of Us All, she wrote Roger Graef, Eliot House junior who is staging the opera: "The opera is based on the indignation G. S. felt at the shabby way the Massachusetts abolitionists treated her. Gertrude S. considered the play clear to a literal reading...
...successful use of arena staging in a House dining hall was the major achievement of the evening, and credit for this must go to theatre designer Llewellyn Bigelow and director Roger Graef. It appeared from last night's performance that there are certain problems of access to the stage and blocking still to be solved, but Graef's originality of handling has exploited all the advantages of the arena, even if it has not escaped all its pitfalls...
...behind the grille. But, as Sister Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, she learned the spiritual lessons of Carmel so well that she has already been proposed as a candidate for beatification in the Roman Catholic Church. In The Scholar and the Cross (Newman Press; $3.50), German-born Author Hilda Graef analyzes Edith Stein and her spiritual saga with rare objectivity. One fact emerges clearly: whether saint or simply, as a friend suggested, "an ideal personality," Edith Stein was one of the most remarkable women of her time...
...depths of insignificance, Edith Stein changed. She who had often been cool and aloof found herself wearing a red wig and performing a Chaucerian skit during a convent entertainment; she who had been intolerant of weakness learned charity by falling asleep during meditation. In time, says Author Graef, "Edith Stein became a perfectly harmonious spiritual personality...
Beyond this, a great share of praise for the success of Finnegans Wake must go to Roger Graef, whose musical arrangements worked around and through the language and the acting to supply gaiety and pathos when required, and generally add immeasurably to the vitality of the production. Nora White Shattuck's choreogrpahy was also a prominent and amusing addition...