Word: marce
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Marc Champagnat, a stout and fastidious retired railroad worker, was the Dr. Johnson of the town of Angoulême A divorcé and a gourmet, Marc and his friends-the undertaker, the fishmonger, the mayor, the lawyer's clerk and the school principal-met so regularly in the tavern called Le Practic that their group became known as Champagnat's Club. Over peppery steak and cognac, Marc would talk endlessly of his philosophies, his past amours, his hobbies-fishing and cooking-and his adventures in the Cameroons. Even the Irish setter Vo-Vo learned to follow...
...word "opera" would be box-office poison-or so the producers of Composer Marc Blitzstein's Regina decided when it opened on Broadway four years ago. They labeled Regina a "musical drama," and invited the drama critics as well as the music critics to review it. The drama critics, whose notices are the ones that count at the Broadway box office, came and shook their heads; Blitzstein's musical version of Lillian Hellman's The Little Foxes seemed to them an unnecessary intrusion on a fine play. Regina ran for 56 performances, then gave...
...Manhattan, the National Institute of Arts and Letters elected Playwright Marc (Green Pastures) Connelly as its new president, to succeed Composer Douglas Moore...
Married. Christine Patiño y Borbón, 20, Bolivian tin heiress ($150 million); and Prince Marc de Beauvau Craon, 31, descendant of the 12th century Anjous of France, now a director of a French motor-scooter factory; in a sumptuous ceremony at the Church of St. Louis des Invalides witnessed by the Latin American diplomatic corps and most of Europe's titled, uncrowned heads; in Paris...
Jones--a designer, producer, and director--is, according to MacLeish, "one of the foremost scenic designers in the country." He has done the designing for Marc Connelly's "Green Pastures," Eugene O'Neill's "The Iceman Cometh," and Alban Berg's opera, "Wozzeck." He has also done "Oedipus Rex," "Macbeth," and "Richard III." Jones began work in designing for color films as early...