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...ready for the daily double if you responded: 1) Who is Claude Francois Denecourt, nicknamed "le Silvain"? 2) What is Mons Pilatus in the Swiss Alps? and 3) What is Landscape and Memory by Simon Schama? Author of iconoclastic, groundbreaking studies of the French Revolution (Citizens) and the Netherlands during its 17th century Golden Age (The Embarrassment of Riches), Schama is one of those rare, imaginative historians who do more than impose order on the known past. He introduces readers to a kind of yesteryear they never dreamed existed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CALL OF NATURE | 4/24/1995 | See Source »

...cast of "The Passion of Joan of Arc" are Falconetti as Joan, Silvain, M. Schutz, Ravet, and Andre Berly. The film was directed by Carl Dreyer and photographed by Rudolph Mate and Kotula...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 3/7/1934 | See Source »

...Paris, some weeks ago, Madame Silvain, famed tragedienne, was acting in a Greek drama, with the sword of Damocles suspended not by a hair but by a cord over her head. Malicious colleagues cut the cord. The sword fell-so did Mme. Silvain's left ear. Last week she was awarded $2,000 damages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Dec. 24, 1923 | 12/24/1923 | See Source »

...EXPOSITION OF CHAMBER MUSIC. Mr. Whiting, assisted by Mr. Silvain Noach and Mr. Georg Wendler. New Lecture Hall, 8 P. M. Open only to officers and students of the University...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University Calendar | 3/31/1911 | See Source »

...expositions of chamber music will be given in New Lecture Hall this evening at 8 o'clock. It will be open to members of the University only, and no admission will be charged. The following program will be rendered by Mr. Whiting, at the pianoforte, assisted by Mr. Silvain Noach, violin, and Mr. Georg Wendler, waldhorn, both of the Boston Symphony Orchestra...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Last Whiting Concert at 8 | 3/31/1911 | See Source »

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