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...have hoped for a more daring pair of trousers than pinstriped brown), but he is hard to accept as the doddering old man of 1974. Ed T. Dean ’04 is noteworthy for his role as Carr’s politically savvy butler, sneaking drinks from the sideboard and constantly rolling his eyes in frustration at his master’s ineptitude. As James Joyce, James C. Oliver ’06 is a charming yet stern Irish caricature, complete with a thick accent, a giant shamrock pasted on the front of his hat and a habit...
Potential pourers receive a call in early September asking them to pick Wednesday evenings over the course of the term that would be convenient for them, says Helen Fernald. She is deftly serving cups of tea beside a sideboard laden with silverware and a small paperback book titled College Graces of Oxford and Cambridge. Gomes then designates each prospective pourer to serve tea at one party...
...craft as one might wish. Its conspectus of ceramics is quite good, but it's weaker in furniture. There is a fine suite of low-slung Modernist furniture in gumwood designed by Rudolph Schindler in the 1930s for his unbuilt Shep House in Los Angeles, and a splendid 1908 sideboard with inlays of fruitwood, ebony and abalone shell by Greene & Greene, those Pasadena masters of the Arts and Crafts style. But it's hard to get much more than a hint of how much really good furniture was being made in California in the first third of the century...
...craft as one might wish. Its conspectus of ceramics is quite good, but it's weaker in furniture. There is a fine suite of low-slung Modernist furniture in gumwood designed by Rudolph Schindler in the 1930s for his unbuilt Shep House in Los Angeles, and a splendid 1908 sideboard with inlays of fruitwood, ebony and abalone shell by Greene & Greene, those Pasadena masters of the Arts and Crafts style. But it's hard to get much more than a hint of how much really good furniture was being made in California in the first third of the century...
...loyal viewers of PBS's Antiques Roadshow, spring cleaning will just have to wait. Really, what's a little clutter when that rickety sideboard or dusty cup-and-saucer set might be your ticket to paradise...