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...made a parachute jump on his 81st birthday, changed his mind about parachuting into the Niagara River to celebrate his 83rd, decided instead to mark the event at home in Dansville, N.Y. by simply eating a whole wheat cake and announcing a prize of $1,000 for the best three-act play about his life...
Music: Douglas Stuart Moore, for a three-act opera, Giants In the Earth...
...sadly perplexed crowd that walked out after the Poets' Theatre performance of Lyon Phelps' three-act verse drama "Autumn" last Monday night. We had gone prepared to wrestle with obscurities and be buffeted by lines of lofty poetic significance, but Mr. Phelps had imposed on us too much. If we had grasped the deep meaning of every symbol and responded fully to every profound line in his play we would have been left limp from catharsis, unable to leave the theatre. As it was we walked out, perplexed...
...composer with a predilection for American subjects, Moore chose a hard story of Norwegian pioneers in Dakota Territory. Arnold (Down in the Valley) Sundgaard carved a three-act libretto from Norwegian-born Novelist O. E. Rolvaag's Giants in the Earth...
...Glad Eden," a three-act play by John A. Rowell '51 of Kirkland House and Grand Rapids, Michigan, has been selected as the best of 12 scripts submitted to the joint Harvard-Radcliffe Playwrights Group contest of last spring, President Russell A. Ames '51 announced yesterday. Either the Dramatic Club or the playwrights Group will produce "Glad Eden" this spring...