Word: lyons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...remaining plays on the program were both excellent. In Three Words in No Time; Lyon Phelps, through effective wiring and imaginative staging gives new life to an idea that is certainly common enough. Phelps' theme is that man's greatest moments, the instants of highest creativity or most meaningful experience, are wholly out of time. Two women attend an art show and see a picture showing Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, and Melville's wife. The two authors step from the picture--Melville in anguish over a passage of Moby Dick and Hawthorne trying to capture an image. As a ticking...
...Concordat? Out of the Rome express at Paris' Gare de Lyon one drizzly morning fortnight ago stepped the Master General of the Dominican Order, the most Rev. Emanuel Suarez. He slipped into a waiting car which drove straight to Dominican headquarters in the Rue du Faubourg St. Honore and a nervous welcome...
...voting for a President of France dragged on at Versailles, ballot after ballot, the mood of the French press and public grew darker with rage and indignation. In Lyon, citizens hung up a street banner reading: THE CONGRESS OF VERSAILLES IS A MOCKERY. FRENCHMEN OF ALL OPINIONS, SHOW DISAPPROVAL BY PUTTING YOUR FLAGS AT HALF-MAST. What had begun as a "glorious uncertainty" (in the words of mercurial Foreign Minister Georges Bidault) had degenerated into an inglorious ordeal. Although the presidency is supposed to be above politics, it was partisan politics that blocked a choice for so long...
Members of the committee besides Judd, are: John Martindale '54, vice-president of the Harvard Dramatic Club, Neil Smith '54, HDC president, Richard Heffron '54, Anthony Herrey '54, Michael Maccoby '54 and Benjamin LaFarge '54. Lyon Phelps '51, president of the Poots' Theatre, is an observer on the committee...
There will be no admission charge, but a collection will be taken. Those unable to attend may send contributions to the Dylan Thomas Fund, Care of 105 Brattle St., Lyon Phelps president of the poets Theatre announced...