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...fully satisfies all the hopes that theatre news from Britain has excited in followers of avant-grade drama. It is one of those plays about which people disagree, disagree even as to what it is about. I would suggest that perhaps Simpson intends to supplement the venerable Bede, Trevelyan, Thornton Wilder, and The Times, as historian of Church, England, mankind, and the times. Early in the play (and in a manner reminiscent of some of Our Town's devices) he calls our attention to the large meaning he wants his play to have (and the correspondingly high standards by which...
...pauses to contemplate an art treasure. Two pictures that were favorites of the judges happened to be snapped by amateurs. Manhattan's William Froelich, an ex-electronics salesman, produced a design of blazing reds in his The Sellers of Holi Powder at Benares. And Methodist Minister W. George Thornton of Titusville, Pa. put two photographs together to create a Dreamboat gliding out of a mist, as if emerging from another world...
CAREFREE 1928 was a year of peace, prosperity, bootleg booze and "whoopee." Commander Richard E. Byrd set out on his first Antarctic expedition, and Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly the Atlantic. Thornton Wilder won a Pulitzer Prize for The Bridge of San Luis Rey, Warner Brothers released the first all-talking picture, The Lights of New York, and Walt Disney produced his first Mickey Mouse cartoon, Plane Crazy. In the World Series, the New York Yankees walloped the St. Louis Cardinals in four straight, with Babe Ruth hitting three home runs in the final game. In August...
...source of McKim's inspiration. Endowed partly by J. P. Morgan the elder and chartered by Congress, it soon took in artists and classicists. Now, aided by 50 U.S. colleges and universities, it stands as one of the finest overseas representatives of U.S. culture. Among its alumni: Playwright Thornton Wilder, Classicist Robert F. Goheen (see above), Novelists Ralph Ellison and William Styron, Poets Richard Wilbur and John Ciardi, Composers Samuel Barber, Aaron Copland and Roger Sessions...
...college theatrical group has cancelled plans for a tour of U.S. Army bases in the Pacific area with its production of Our Town, by Thornton Wilder. The show will still be presented in Cambridge this May, as originally scheduled, Joel F. Henning '61, producer, announced yesterday...