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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...organizing and performing amateur theatricals-although, as is well known, his name as a director is on the stationery of some 35 corporations. He organized some years ago an amateur theatrical company for which he built a theatre at Stansted Park, his estate. His favorite rôle-and the Canadians reported that "he has a commanding presence"-is the title rôle in Shakespeare's Henry IV. Educated at Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge, he was called to the Bar in 1903, is a onetime lieutenant in the Bucks Yeomanry...
Engaged. Loranda Prochnik, daughter of Edgar Prochnik, Austrian Minister to the U. S.; and Francis Le Compte Spalding, Boston socialite, student at the Foreign Service School in Washington...
...follow were The Jewels of the Madonna, Die Meistersinger, La Bohème and de Falla's ballet L'Amour Sorcier, Pelléas et Mélisande, Die Walküre, Don Giovanni, The Masked Ball, Tristan und Isolde, Aïda, La Navar-raise and Le Jongleur de Notre Dame, Tannhäuser, Otello, Forrest's Camille, The Bartered Bride, Lucia di Lammermoor...
...merely being natural, but an artistic projection in terms of the individual performer. Like the playwrights, they too have to struggle against unimaginativeness of the audience. Mr. Brown selects Otis Skinner and Mrs. Fiske of the old school and Pauline Lord. Katherine Cornell, the Lunts and Eva Le Gallienne of the younger generation to show how this problem of stodginess is being met in practical theatre presentation...
...Haffner; Nelson Robinson, Jr., Professor of Architecture, will be absent from the School during the second half year. His place will be taken by Andre Leconte, architect diplome par le Gouvernement Francais, and winner of the Grand Prix de Rome in 1926. M. Leconte, generally regarded as being one of the foremost European authorities on architecture, was recently asked by the Architectural Record to make detailed scale drawings of the mosaics at Constantinople, which are now on display at Robinson Hall...