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Farewell to the Grand Style. The Enclosure is an exclusive suburb obviously set on Boston's North Shore. A faintly Renaissance gate opening on ten driveways, houses ranging in style from Jacobean to classical revival, a very private beach, old families not merely rich but entirely accustomed to it-this is the special world about which Ethan Ayer writes. His book is a portfolio of vignettes: the well-bred old snobs, the new, vulgar rich, the wealthy young weaklings and, behind all these, the pompous and romantic servants...
...center of the exhibition, a specially commissioned mural by New Yorker Cartoonist Saul Steinberg put the modern designer's dilemma into squiggly perspective. In one panel, Artist Steinberg had drawn a cross-section of a block of walk-up apartments: "modern" studios sandwiched between lead-heavy Jacobean dinettes and cluttered Victorian parlors. His stark plywood chairs were ornamented with fussy crocheted antimacassars, his baby carriages fashioned like battleships. The level-headed modern designer, set loose among America's gingerbread and fake Tudor suburbs and neo-Renaissance row houses, was in danger, according to Steinberg, of having his dearest...
John Carradine, noted Shakespearean actor and movie star, takes over English 25, Jacobean Drama, this morning at 11 o'clock in Harvard...
English 1 attempts to give the field some cohesion but is far too compressed and intensive for most to gain more than a superficial view. English 7 and 25, both good courses, cover American literature and Elizabethan-Jacobean century drama in a more detailed and effective manner. Other courses vary from slightly less than good to slightly less than adequate...
Typical of the light Idler touch was the use of period music for this Jacobean comedy. An exceptionally competent quartet of string players, from the Harvard orchestra, under the guiding hand of arranger Maxwell Harvey '44, played snatches of suites by Purcell and Handel and a Lully concerto during the frequent changes of scene. Instead of the usual discordant effect of incidental music, last night's aided and abetted the harmonious tone of the staging...