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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even moviegoers flocking to see Actress Ingrid Bergman in her current hit role as Anastasia have had to leave their theaters with the question unanswered: Was the bewildered, scarred and unstrung girl who claimed to have escaped alive from that Uralian basement really the Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna Romanova, the Czar's fourth daughter? For 35 years the question has been asked and answered, but until last week never officially settled...
...1920s Long Island's fashionable North Shore society, who had just played host to Britain's bouncing Edward, Prince of Wales, gave a royal welcome to the Grand Duchess. Many of those firmest in proclaiming her authenticity were distant relatives and friends of her supposed family-but one branch, the German House of Hesse, to which the Empress of Russia had belonged, declined to accept the newcomer. The Czar, it was said, had deposited some 20 million rubles in England before the revolution, and the House of Hesse wanted to assure itself a prior right to the money...
Harvard Square is in real danger of turning into a Little Broadway. As on Manhattan's Broadway, an increasing emphasis on commercial success has become detectable among the local drama groups, and the cult of success is made necessary by the fact that the productions are growing ever more grand and elaborate. The recent Harvard Dramatic Club staging of Hamlet had a budget of well over four thousand dollars, a figure which is by no means exceptionally large. Unfortunately even when these expensive productions get their outlay back at the box office, the result from an artistic point of view...
...writers and the questionable quality of experimental plays by established authors, but these points make a poor excuse. The works, for example, of Ibsen, Lorca, and Yeats include many of which are eminently suitable for staging at the University. Some of them have the additional advantage of not requiring grand production. Instead of these, we get imitations of Broadway--and Shakespeare. Even worse than the popular modern playwrights, Shakespeare provides the staple for Harvard's dramatic diet. While it is laudable to produce nearly any of his works, the fact remains that Shakespeare also receives frequent performances. Two or three...
...Glutton." Praise of this magnitude is precisely what a grimly determined woman set out to achieve two centuries ago. When Catherine the Great (1729-96), born a German princess, came to Russia in 1744 to marry Grand Duke Peter (later Peter III), she found the nucleus of an imperial art collection started by Peter the Great, her husband's grandfather. After Catherine had forced her way to the throne in 1762, she sent fast-spending agents throughout Europe to send back wagonloads of just about anything on canvas that was for sale. "I am,'' she said...