Word: guilds
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Almost nothing is known of Brueghel's life. He became a member of the Antwerp artists' guild in 1551, traveled through Italy the next year. He first supported himself by making sketches for popular engravings, blossomed into genius in the last decade of his life, and died in 1569, before his 45th birthday. He left a wife and two sons. He was self-possessed, a habitual stroller and something of a practical joker; that about completes the record. Brueghel doubtless kept off the center of the stage on purpose: one sees better from the wings...
...Harvard Opera Guild will perform The Abduction from the Seraglio in February as its fourth major production, Davis L. Kennedy '60, production manager of the Guild, announced last night...
...addition, the Guild will present Menotti's The Telephone as a fall workshop, Kennedy added. Casting for both productions will start Sunday and continue through Tuesday...
Bank vaults refused to lock. Long queues of customers logjammed the aisles of supermarkets behind silent cash registers, while clerks frantically tried to add up their checks with old-fashioned pencil and paper. When police ordered evacuation of the New York Guild for the Jewish Blind, 200 patients easily felt their way out of the pitch-black building, leading their helpless doctors and nurses...
Died. Theresa Helburn, 72, tiny (5 ft.), hard-driving director (one of six) of the Theatre Guild since its founding in 1919. co-director after 1939, who gave up middling playwriting and dramatic criticism to rescue the Broadway stage from commercial mediocrity in the 1920s by tenaciously putting on demanding works by such authors as G. B. Shaw, Eugene O'Neill, Robert Sherwood and William Inge, was the first to pair Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne on the stage (The Guardsman, 1924); of a heart attack"; in Norwalk, Conn. The Theatre Guild never recaptured its glories...