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When the time came for college, Mr. Wilder decided that Yale, his own alma mater, was too worldly for his boys, so Amos and Thornton went to Oberlin.There Thornton fell under the spell of a great teacher. Professor Charles Wager was a kindly, quiet man who described himself as an "umbratile nature" (one who lives in the shadows of great men); but when he spoke of Victorian literature, or carried his students on the tide of his enthusiasm from Homer to Dante, the shadows vanished. From Wager, Thornton learned a lesson he was never to forget: "Every great work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: An Obliging Man | 1/12/1953 | See Source »

...London, playing with the Old Vic. Robert Fletcher, who did costumes and also acted, was with the New York City Center Ballet, and Robert O'Hearn was with the Sadler Wells Company. Many of the other Brattle alumni had also attached themselves to bigger companies. Jack Kerr and Michael Wager were rehearing "Bernadine," and Fred Gwynne was playing in "Mrs. McThing...

Author: By Michael Maccoby, | Title: The Brattle Theatre--Brilliance and Arrogance | 11/14/1952 | See Source »

John G. Kerr '52 and Michael Wager '47, former stars of College and Brattle Theatre productions, have top billings in advertisements for the new Broadway show "Bernadine...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brattle Veterans Open Soon In New Broadway Production | 10/7/1952 | See Source »

Kerr played the title role in "Billy Budd" at the Brattle last year, and also starred in "A Sleep of Prisoners." Wager had top billing in the Brattle's production of "The idea...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brattle Veterans Open Soon In New Broadway Production | 10/7/1952 | See Source »

...always the doting and misguided parent. Beyerly Lawrence, however, does quite well in the confusing part of the mother's friend; it is a fuzzy hole because the script never adequately explains why she let herself be picked up in the first place. Another former Brattler, Michael Wager, does his best as Vernon, the grind, but this also is a pretty flat part...

Author: By Michael Maccoby, | Title: Bernadine | 9/24/1952 | See Source »

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