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Freed from Trouble. As a future tragedian. Leopardi began life with every possible disadvantage in his favor. His mother, Contessa Adelaide, made piety seem more a crime than a virtue. When children-her own or other people's-were stillborn or died in infancy. Mother Leopardi "experienced a deep happiness . . . inasmuch as [they] had flown to heaven, while their parents had been freed from the trouble of bringing them up." Of Leopardi's father. Conte Monaldo, it is reported that he once took off his pants in the street and gave them to a beggar...
...Chekhov play, "A Tragedian in Spite of Himself" will be directed by John Kerr '52. Michael Mabry '53 will play the part of the tragedian, and Donald Stewart '53 will play his friend. The second play will be Shaw's. "The Shewing Up of Blanche Posnit," to be directed by Irving Yoskowitz '53 and produced by shop productions. It offered the first last February
John Gielgud, renowned British tragedian, joined members of the Theatre Group yesterday to sip claret at Fogg Museum. The actor, who is currently appearing in Boston in "The Lady's Not For Burning," asked the H.T.G. to keep the gathering small and informal...
...Lewis, the Pied Piper of Happiness, Ol' Man Sunshine, the Medicine Man for Your Blues, the High-hatted Tragedian of Song, was back in town. A quarter of a century had passed, and incredibly, the old show was still going on. Among the bamboos and potted palms of Manhattan's Hurricane restaurant, he cocked his shabby topper over his ancient and leering eye and abandoned himself to his 1920 classic When My Baby Smiles...
Three hours had passed. John Lewis stepped off the witness chair, gathered together his entourage, steamed majestically from the committee room. The echoes of his blank prose died: the stage emptied. The great tragedian, whom no vegetable-throwing gallery has ever been able to silence, had played another scene...