Word: meacham
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Landish Meacham Jr., instructor History, will become the Allston Senior Ttuor at Winthrop House this Fall...
...Meacham succeeds Benjamin W. assistant professor of History. will spend the year studying in Europe...
...opens with such a party. Fielding (Portman), the government college principal and a man too decent to play raj, has invited a mixed bag to tea. Among his guests are a pair of British ladies-who want to see India. One of them, lanky, pink, ditherish Miss Quested (Anne Meacham), who has come from England to be married; and Mrs. Moore (Gladys Cooper), the mother of Miss Quested's fiancé. They meet Dr. Aziz (expertly played by Zia Mohyeddin), a Moslem who is young, charming, overemotional, awkward and desperately anxious to please. His position, India...
...dead, hovers over all the play's events; she comes to a mystical understanding of India, a sense of how its enervating cycle of season and its vastness make a mockery of human values and the understanding spas her will to live. Miss Quested is played by Ann Meacham, and she is stiff and frightened and honest in just the right English proportions. Fielding (Eric Portman), the old teacher who learns that Indian and English are like oil and water, is good-a rueful, dignified portrayal...
This credit balance of Ibsen's is some what dissipated by David Ross's Manhattan production. In the first play of Ross's current Ibsen cycle, Anne Meacham made a formidable Hedda Gabler; Leueen MacGrath is a lightweight Mrs. Alving. Ibsen's Mrs. Alving is scoured to self-knowledge by the harsh uses of life; Actress MacGrath's Mrs. Alving is so much the sophisticated skeptic that events merely seem to confirm her suspicions. Modernity also mars Staats Cotsworth's Pastor Manders. He plays the hypocrite, but he is not, as Ibsen intended...