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Hope has been nearly abandoned for the recovery of $50,000 worth of uncut gems stolen from the Mineralogical Museum in July 1962. Further security measures will soon be installed at the museum, however, to protect the rest of Harvard's collection...
...actors develop other than personality cults if they don't measure themselves against the past?" How stiff a standard that is and how long it will take for U.S. actors to measure up to it were swiftly revealed on opening night. Director Guthrie elected to do an uncut Hamlet in modern dress, and he provided some of the eye-catchers that make purists accuse him of being a theatrical prankster: mourners with black umbrellas at Ophelia's burial; a Laertes who waves a revolver in Claudius' face and a Claudius who gets the revolver and slyly pockets...
...years. Yet by 1594, they had taught some 220,000 students, including the future St. Francis de Sales. The Jesuits welcomed anyone who could hurdle the entrance exams. They lured rich and poor, Jansenists and Protestants, Bourbon princes, colonial Americans, Turks and even Chinese. The best students were often uncut diamonds like Jean Baptiste Poquelin, son of a long line of upholsterers. The Jesuits put him on a diet of Terence, Lucretius, and French drama. Wielding a pen sharper than a needle, he became the playwright Molière. Perverts & Premiers. All this so impressed Louis XIV, the Sun King...
...Idiot, a Japanization of the Dostoevsky novel, is Kurosawa's favorite Kurosawa picture. Made in 1951, the film ran on for 165 minutes. Appalled, Kurosawa's crassly commercial distributor (Shochiku) hacked it down to 90 minutes. The uncut original has never been shown in public-until now. Thanks to a culture-conscious exhibitor named Dan Talbot, the unmitigated Idiot has had its world premiere in Manhattan-and the showing showed that the crassly commercial distributor was absolutely right...
Last Christmas, Speeth's fifth graders staged Amahl and the Night Visitors, went on to an uncut version of A Midsummer Night's Dream. This summer a church volunteered use of the vacant "theater" building, where Speeth and volunteer collegians held six-hour daily classes for 101 kids in literature, music appreciation, dancing and dramatics, with play rehearsals after hours...