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...give to Shakespeare. A young (19) actress named Jean Simmons, who plays Ophelia, is a product of the movie studios exclusively. Yet she holds her own among some highly skilled Shakespeareans. More to the point, she gives the film a vernal freshness and a clear humanity which play like orchard breezes through all of Shakespeare's best writing, but which are rarely projected by veteran Shakespearean actors...
...slavery-and the machine has made him so little of a slave that he scarcely needs to use his hands and jaws and legs. The more "neutral" and "uniform" a product is, the more comfortable he finds it. The 19th Century gardener grew 30 kinds of apples in his orchard, ranging in taste from bitter to sweet. Today, "the large red apple" caters to the public love of all that is "sweet, smooth, and outwardly appealing." Bread, which was once the crusty staff of life, is now "half-masticated . . . before reaching the mouth," and caters to the taste which prefers...
...Vermonter but a tall, determined gentleman from Virginia, Colonel Fairfax Ayres, 57. A veteran of World Wars I and II and Wall Street, Ayres retired to the Green Mountains ten years ago to hunt and fish. He bought a farm at Shaftsbury, which had a 100-year-old maple orchard. Today he owns three farms, has 3,500 buckets out and produces some 700 to 1,000 gallons of syrup. Ayres thinks that the way farmers have cut down their maple groves is bad, their marketing worse. He would 1) bar anyone producing syrup outside of Vermont from calling...
With an ethereal production of Chekov's "The Cherry Orchard" tonight at 8 o'clock, WHCN will inaugurate its new series of ten weekly adaptations of dramas culled from comparative literature 3b and English...
Introductory comments by Professor Matthiessen will start the series rolling tonight. Featured in "The Cherry Orchard" are Anna Prince, Radcliffe '47, as Madame Reneski, West as Zopakhin, and Frederick F. Lamont '48, of Goev. Most talent for the broadcasts will be selected from those taking the sponsoring courses...