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Over the past half century Randolph-Macon Woman's College in Lynchburg, Virginia, has built up an extraordinary reputation as one of the most active centers of ancient Greek study in the country. The prime stimulus was Miss Mabel Whiteside, who functioned as a local Thalia, Melpomene and Terpsichore rolled into one. She had her students of Greek put on some 40 productions of Greek drama in the original language. In the spring of 1954, she fittingly climaxed 50 years of teaching at Randolph-Macon by presenting, not one more Greek play, but three--Aeschylus' trilogy The Oresteia, the mighty...
Made to honor Professor Mabel K. Whiteside, who herself plays the role of a Priest of Dionysus, the film will be introduced and will carry commentary by William Yandell Elliott, Leroy B. Williams Professor of History and Political Science, emeritus, at Harvard; former Director of the Harvard Summer School; and currently University Professor at The American University...
...University is transferring the services of the Harvard Wives Office to various other administrative offices. The sudden curtailment of the service organization coincided with the retirement of Mabel B. Baker from her position as adviser of the Harvard Wives...
...intimate knowledge of the most mundane aspects of the whole operation. It is difficult to imagine President Pusey or even the deans of the other faculties taking an interest in the draperies that are to be hung in a university building; Mrs. Bunting, though, personally selected the curtains for Mabel Daniels...
...especially since they put up to $200 a week in tips on his piano. His secret, he explains, is that "I don't play at them; I make them come to me." - Norman Wallace, at Chicago's Mon Petit, is a singer in the tradition of Mabel Mercer-quiet, cool, reassuring. In the '40s, he wrote songs for Edith Piaf; later he tried his hand at musicals in New York before migrating to Chicago, where he leavens a Continental repertory with up-tempo show tunes and a few Beatle ballads. The social set and young marrieds think...