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...Distressed Gentlefolk's Aid Association trapped by a blizzard in a provincial guesthouse with a maniacal killer. But Murder Manufacturer Agatha Christie said optimistically, "I do think we will get quite a good run out of it," as she signed over all royalties to her grandson Mathew Prichard, 9. Twenty-one years later, The Mousetrap has become the longest running play ever, totting up 8,717 performances in London and earning $7.5 million. Prichard, now 30 and a gentleman farmer in Wales, declined to comment on the extent of his fortune, and gallantly accompanied his benefactor Dame Agatha...
Also on the list were Hugh Calkins, Fellow of Harvard College, John Kenneth Galbraith, Warburg Professor of Economics, and Mathew S. Meselson, professor of Biology...
...never before: bread rolls became ballet slippers, a boot was transformed into a feast, a torn newspaper had a new career as a lace tablecloth. There have been more ambitious silent comedies than Chaplin's-Buster Keaton's The General combined yocks with the verisimilitude of Mathew Brady photographs; Harold Lloyd's and Ben Turpin's movies could wring as many laughs from an audience. But no one ever touched Chaplin's mute grace; no one ever approached the lyricism of his Eternal Immigrant lost in a country that would never...
...Mathew D. Edel, Dept. of Economics M.I.T...
...that he was rediscovered and merchandised in Ford commercials and films like Beach Blanket Bingo. Such travesties are happily omitted from the Rohauer restoration. Instead, there are the fabulous originals, now preserved on celluloid stock -works like The General, a Civil War comedy which could have been photographed by Mathew Brady, and the complex and hilarious Navigator, deservedly Keaton's biggest moneymaker...