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...three artists stand out in one's mind, against a confused background of innumerable oil and wateronlor landscapes. Among these Holabird is perhaps the most noteworthy. In his stage sets, both for Pinero's "The Magistrates" and Aristophanes' "Peace," in his savage woodcuts on the social scene in the year 1941, and in his watercolors and cartoons he demonstrates a remarkable creative imagination, a sharpened awareness and a mastery of diverse techniques...
John A. Holabird, Jr. '42 of Lowell House was chosen to design the sets for Arthur Pinero's "The Magistrate," fall production of the Radcliffe Idler, it was announced by the Idler recently. Tickets for the performance of the play on Friday and Saturday evenings, November 28 and 29, at 8:30 o'clock at Agassiz Theatre are now on sale...
Born. To Cinemactress Toby Wing, grandniece of the late Dramatist Sir Arthur Wing Pinero, and Pilot Henry Tindall ("Dick") Merrill: a son, their second; at Miami Beach, Fla. Last spring their first son accidentally suffocated at the age of eleven months...
Like a durable old dowager, creaky but impressive, the Second Mrs. Tanqueray has swept in & out of theatres ever since 1893. First played by the late great Mrs. Patrick Campbell, the deplorably accessible heroine of this Pinero drama has been variously enacted by Eleanora Duse, Olga Nethersole, Gladys Cooper, Ethel Barrymore. Last week, in Maplewood, N. J., looking buxom as a milkmaid and in fine vocal trim, Tallulah Bankhead demonstrated that there's life in Pinero's old girl...
When the Second Mrs. Tanqueray was originally presented, it shocked Victorian audiences out of their buttoned boots. The play pointed up the fact that a lady can't roll in the hay and then expect to live in the manor. Although Sir Arthur Wing Pinero laced his drama with many a tight homily and saw to it that his Paula's past caught up with her in the end, the uniform reaction of audiences was one of shocked disapproval. Produced during the same year in London and New York, the Second Mrs. Tanqueray inspired much pulpitation, was condemned...