Word: samuels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While Mr. Cotten and Miss Sullavan are up-braiding the producer for tricking them into Sabrina Fair, the two stars might have a word with author Samuel Taylor. Taylor has provided them with a parody of Shavian comedy. Shaw's good-natured snobbery, his interminable stretches of dialogue, his predictable surprise ending are all belabored here. Lacking only is Shaw's sincerity and wit: In the part forced on Cotten, the "superman" seems barely capable of running his own life. And any clever lines are spare indeed, while almost-clever lines pop up again and again to mar the play...
...early New England, the narrowing strictures of puritanism were constantly endangering the College. The election of Samuel Webber to the presidency in 1806 marked the first in a long line of Unitarian presidents. Samuel Eliot Morison writes, "Orthodox Calvinists, of the true puritan tradition now became open enemies to Harvard.... Unitarianism of the Boston stamp was not a fixed dogma but a point of view that was receptive, searching, inquiring, and yet devout; a halfway house to the rationalistic and scientific point of view...
...chair, a straight-backed, wooden affair, dates back to the administration of John Holyoke, who had it imported from England in 1750. It was first used in 1770 at the inauguration of Samuel Locke, Harvard's tenth President, and has been a part of the ceremony ever since...
...lavish production itself and its smasheroo promotion campaign. A few suspected its triumph might be due to the simple fact that with all its spectacular slickness, The Robe was based on a great theme (Christ's passion) written by a popular storyteller (the late Lloyd C. Douglas). As Samuel Goldwyn remarked: "In any consideration of new dimensions for motion pictures, the fact still remains that the most important dimension is that of the story...
...became a reader for the publishing firm of Chapman & Hall, promptly turned down one of history's biggest bestsellers, Mrs. Henry Wood's East Lynne, His acceptance of such newcomers as Thomas Hardy and George Gissing never attained the fame of his rejection slips, which turned back Samuel Butler's Erewhon ("Will not do"), and Shaw's early novels, Cashel Byron's Profession and Immaturity...