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...actors work fluently with the verse; keeping its essential character without ever letting it descend to self conciousness. Benjamin Britten's score, too, provides a coloristic background for the play. To single out any of the performers for praise is practically impossible; the entire cast is magnificent. Leonard Kent as the hero Michael Ransom performs beautifully in a gruelling role; Earl Montgomery as Lord Stagmantle and Jervis McMechan as Ian Shawcross also give outstanding performances. As a last word, one must mention the impressive sets and stagings. Ransom's death-dream is a triumph of direction...

Author: By J. A. B. and W. E. H., S | Title: The Playgoer | 5/3/1940 | See Source »

...visiting lecturer on poetry here this year, he has just completed an opera on Paul Bunyan with Benjamin Britton, well-known composer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Author to Attend HDC Spring Play | 5/1/1940 | See Source »

...when the journalist Friedrich Benjamin is kidnapped into Germany and Sepp is called to work at his desk, he uncorks a talent for satire so useful that uneasily he neglects his music...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Exiles Waiting | 4/29/1940 | See Source »

...Sohn, of Lwow, Poland, LL.M. and Master of Diplomatic Science, '35, University of John Casimir, Lwow, Poland, candidate for LL.M. '40, Harvard; Marcus Manoff, of Philadelphia, Pa., candidate for LL.B. '40, Harvard; George H. Schuller, New Haven, Conn., J. D., '32, University of Vienna, candidate for LL.B. '40, Yale; Benjamin Carlin, Grove Hall, Mass., candidate for LL.B. '40, Wake Forest Law School; Henry H. Foster Jr., Lincoln, Nebr., LL.B. '36, University of Nebraska; Robert G Murray, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, candidate for LL.B. '40, Dalhousie; William T. Muse, Richmond, Va., LL.B., '30, University of Richmond, S.J.D., '34, Harvard; and James...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NINETEEN LAW SCHOOL AWARDS MADE PUBLIC | 4/18/1940 | See Source »

Exhibited are a model of an early battery, models developed in 1790 to show the use of Benjamin Franklin's lightning rod, a portable electric machine of 1790 for medical treatment, early examples of Leyden jars embodying the first use of the condenser principle, and an early 17th century loadstone in a metal case...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Scientific Scrapbook | 4/16/1940 | See Source »

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