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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cloud veiled the sun. George looked up nervously. There was delay while elaborate security preparations were completed (no flower-throwing, no rooftop rubbering). Then, while thousands cheered and cannon boomed 101-gun salutes, the King drove through the streets, laid a wreath on the tomb of Greece's Unknown Soldier, attended a Te Deum Mass...
...rock-solid study of a train stalled in a flood; Sydney Laufman's impressionistic Road in the Woods, which looked as though it had been daubed on with dirty cotton; Gladys Rockmore Davis' sugar-sweet ballet painting, Pink Tights. Somehow the jury agreed that an almost unknown Californian named Boris Deutsch deserved the $2,500 first prize-for his ragged, muddy-colored canvas of four weird, grief-crazed creatures with a dead child...
Other clay figures showed animals mounted on wheels. This discovery thrilled archeologists. They had thought that the wheel, basic device of mechanical civilization, was unknown in the New World. But the La Ventas had wheels some 2,000 years ago, or had at least seen representations of them. How they learned about wheels, and why their knowledge died with them, remains a fascinating mystery...
Opening its seventh season, the Boston Tributary Theatre last night achieved one of the most potent productions of Elizabethan drama seen herabouts in its showing of Christopher Marlowe's "Dr. Faustus." Under the direction of Eliot Duvey, a group of relatively unknown players have infinitely outshined the Broadway luminaries of last week's "Duchess of Malfi," and in their organization, point the way for serious theatre groups everywhere...
...Tufts team, not unlike its big brother Varsity version, is something of an unknown quantity, but it is expected that their attack will run from single and double-wing formations in a preview of what the Crimson Varsity can expect tomorrow...