Word: murdered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fogg Museum courtyard will become a stage tonight when a recently-organized group of students present T. S. Eliot's "Murder in the Cathedral." The play is not being put on by the Harvard Dramatic Club although many of its cast are members of the H. D. C. The work has had no previous organization with which to deal and has reached actual production only through the initiative of its directors and the help of influential faculty support. Already interest in undergraduate circles has been evinced by large tryouts, by submission of several manuscripts of poetry dramas, written by students...
...plot of the story surrounds the cruel legalized murder of Briget Bishop and the accusations and attempts made on her daughter Mary. Born in a country where a woman might call her soul her own, and not be accused of witchcraft because she had certain marks on her body which every woman was not afflicted with, Briget fights her way through the terrors of a trial and an execution to preserve the reputation of her daughter and save her from a mad people who knew not what they...
...complete sell-out for the performances of T. S. Eliot's poetic drama "Murder in the Cathedral", Friday and Saturday, has resulted in arrangements for two additional 9 o'clock performances in the Fogg Art Museum on Monday and Tuesday evenings...
That was Aug. 4, 1802. A week later, following the inquest, Lizzie Borden was indicted for the murder of her father and stepmother. It was known that the Bordens were not a happy family. Lizzie and her older sister (who was visiting friends at the time of the murders) resented their stepmother, kept to themselves as much as possible in the front of the house. By Fall River standards of those days, Mr. Borden was a rich man. Two days before the inquest, Lizzie burned up a dress. Her testimony at the inquest-she was never put on the stand...
Last week Edmund Pearson, who specializes in writing up famed U. S. murder cases, published a full-length dissection of the Lizzie Borden mystery, complete with photographs of the victims, plans of the house, rescript of the trial and inquest testimony. Author Pearson was careful not to bring in a verdict, or at least not to say it out loud; but he obviously thought Lizzie Borden was lucky, not innocent...