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By the time he goes to Oxford, in the early 1930s, to polish off his Canadian education, Francis has been honed into a practical, tightfisted young man who is also a thoroughgoing romantic about art. He meets Tancred Saraceni, the world's foremost restorer of old masterpieces, and confesses a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: New Men and Old Masters | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

Perhaps Abbott picked the wrong play, or at least the wrong author: O'Casey's prickly-pear mixture of the gay and the grim, the heartless and the sentimental is often awkward enough. But, then, Richard III is no pip and Abbott did well enough by that, and with, generally...

Author: By Anthony Hiss, | Title: Juno and the Paycock | 3/22/1963 | See Source »

In the 18th century we have the first indication of clandestine theatrical activity among students here. From the diary of Nathaniel Ames '61 come the notations in 1785: "July 6, Cato to perfection;" "July 14, Cato more perfect than before." In 1760 he wrote, "Acted Tancred and Sigismunda for which...

Author: By J. ANTHONY Lukas, | Title: Harvard Theater: Puritans in Greasepaint | 12/10/1953 | See Source »

The hour-and-a-half performance was one more sign of revived interest in the man who stands at the fountainhead of modern musical style. In the past few seasons, Monteverdi's operas Orfeo and Coronation of Poppea and the scenic cantata Battle of Tancred and Clorinda have had...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Revolutionary Revived | 5/11/1953 | See Source »

Judith Nelson, Radcliffe '49, as Mrs. Tancred; J. Bradley Cuming 3rd '46 as Jerry Devine; Robert Lubchansky '48 as Charlie Bentham; Robert L. Wechsler '49 as an irregular mobilizer; Palmer Dixon '50 and Robert Claflin '50 as two irregulars; Dixon as a coal block vender; Arthur S. Bunker, Jr. '49...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HDC 'Juno' Hits Boards of Pudding Club Tonight as Five Day Run Opens | 5/6/1947 | See Source »

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