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...Edward Millman...
...managing a production of 'Sophocles' Philoctetes which the Classics Club (John Finley, President) was presenting, when their Odysseus became ill a few days before curtain time. Levin had never studied Greek in his life, but he somehow succeeded in memorizing the lengthy part, and the result, in Millman Perry's exuberant terms, was "the best performance of a Greek tragedy since the fifth century...
...others. But Miss McCallister and her director were unable to find enough voices to fill the many roles. The three leads were almost uniformly poor. Only three of the 14 songs in the show were delivered by competent performers. One of these, a behind the curtain solo by Nancy Millman, was too short; another, a comedy number by Kitty Hart, made no special vocal demands...
Muralists Millman and Siporin both studied at Chicago's Art Institute, are prime movers in Chicago's Artists' Union. Scholarly Mitch Siporin sings, plays the piano and mandolin. High-strung Eddie Millman relaxes best at the movies. Born on January 1, Millman annually gives a combination New Year's Eve-birthday party famed among Chicago artists, for the rest of the year stays close to the wagon...
...Millman went to Mexico, spent his time with Diego Rivera learning mural design and technique. But at St. Louis neither he nor Siporin will use Rivera's jolting colors and jampacked composition. Their frescoes are in the standard historical vein, grey and red their predominant colors. Contemporary, unlike their murals, are their canvases now on show at the New York and San Francisco World Fairs. But, says Eddie Millman: "In murals alone can art reach the large masses of people. . . . Easel paintings are too personal, too limited in appeal. . . . Painting, to be really functional, must be taken from small...