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...works in the show. There on view is the Uffizi's Medici Venus, because Jefferson longed to install a copy of her at Monticello. Not having been to Florence, he had never seen the original, which he knew through engravings and plasters. It is pleasant to see the Towneley Vase, that once renowned Attic mar ble of the 1st century A.D. on which Keats based several lines of Ode to a Grecian Urn. But Jefferson never saw it, and (as the catalogue admits) would probably have disliked the "licentious mysticism" of its Bacchic figures...
Three Plays from The Towneley Cycle. These may be the best things playing all month for those with a serious, and especially an academic, interest in theater. The Towneley Cycle is one of those compendia of medieval religious plays halfway between ritual and modern drama. This production is the outgrowth of David Staines's English 211 and represents one of the few attempts to bring performing drama within Harvard's academic orbit. The English department should sit up and take note. Two of the three plays that make up the program were translated into modern English by students...
...Boston Dr. Towneley Thorndike French, 57, graduate of the Harvard Medical School, murdered his wife "because I was tired of living in abject poverty." Six weeks ago Mrs. French was discharged as an elevator operator...
...plays this year show the improvement of experience. Not only is the movement of the scenes somewhat more unified, thanks to Mr. Burrell's efforts at adaptation in the wide range allowed him in the Towneley Cycle, but the roles themselves are in some cases taken by the same persons who acted them last year, and who bring to them a familiarity and a smoothness that adds greatly to the final sum of perfection. Mr. Little and Mr. Wardner are especially noticeable in this. And Mr. Snedeker as "Joseph" speaks his part with pleasing gestures and an excellent handling...
...presentation is the Chaundler play of the Towneley cycle, dealing with the Annunciation to Mary, The Adoration of the Infant by the Shepherds and Kings, and with the flight into Egypt. The translation by R. C. Burrell '24 and Donald Stralem '25 is in semi-poetical form...