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...misleading titles go, “Theatrical Photographs,” by Alix Jeffry, at the Lammot du Pont Copeland Gallery has succeeded in a misnomer. Many of the photographs, while delightful, have naught to do with the theatre; Jeffry’s real name was Evelyn Fish and the Lammot du Pont Copeland Gallery is little more than the entrance to Pusey Library. That said, it is worth the trip to Harvard’s underground library to see these 70-odd black and white portraits on display...
...Harvard Theatre Collection, administratively a part of Houghton Library. The Theatre Collection has a comparatively short history, as it was established in 1901. Unfortunately, that history intrudes into the exhibition in a rather jarring way. One of the two rooms that, in addition to the hallway, constitute the Lammot du Pont Copeland Gallery is dominated by two large oil portraits, one of Robert Gould Shaw by Edmund Charles Jarbell and one of Edward Brewster Sheldon by Paul Trabilcock. With two bare walls and the doorway flanked by commemorative oil colors, it is difficult to pay attention to Jeffry?...
...Lammot du Pont Copeland Gallery, Pusey Library
What is better than What is better than owing $64 million? Well, owing only $20 million-as, now, does Lammot du Pont ("Motsey") Copeland Jr., a great-great-great -grandson of the founder of the Du Pont dynasty. Climaxing one of history's largest personal bankruptcy actions, his overworked platoon of Wilmington lawyers settled with a creditors' committee, whittling down his debt from a series of misbegotten enterprises...
...also reduced his assets, apart from trusts, to less than $2 million, from about $26 million. He was forced in the agreement, for example, to put his $500,000 Wilmington mansion up for sale. And settlement could well have been prolonged even further had not the Copeland family-notably Lammot Sr., former chairman of Du Pont-agreed to withdraw some $3.6 million in family claims...