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...choice of a play this year fell on Bernard Shaw's "The Devil's Disciple," which had four performances. It is not the best Shaw, but it is the only full-length play he wrote about America and the first of his works to be staged in this country. The play begins as a romantic melodrama, but suddenly turns into a witty farce of lese-majeste in the last...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: Sixth Annual Boston Arts Festival Evaluated | 7/1/1957 | See Source »

...made obeisance to his uncle (the King he once deposed), in return got back all his decorations and his yellow umbrella. Phetsarath was delighted to be home, smiled and nodded regally when his sarong-clad countrymen offered him hibiscus blossoms and accorded him the full-length, prostrate kowtow he had been accustomed to receive before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LAOS: The Umbrella Man | 6/17/1957 | See Source »

Most recently Picasso has thrown himself enthusiastically into makiag a full-length film, Le Mystere Picasso, a dazzling display of Picasso's technique, which had its U.S. premiere this month as part of the museum's Picasso exhibit. In it Picasso undertakes to paint a new canvas from scratch before the camera's eyes. Naked to the waist, white hair bristling on his chest, Picasso proclaims with calculated drama: "One must risk everything." Ad-libs Director Henri-Georges Clouzot solemnly: 'That's going to be dangerous." Says Picasso: "Out, that is what I seek." While...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Picasso PROTEAN GENIUS OF MODERN ART | 5/27/1957 | See Source »

Because of the current teacher shortage, E.B.F. thinks that its influence will grow even greater. Last week it began to distribute a 162-session physics course by the University of California's Harvey White -the first full-length, high-school physics course ever put on film. The series is to be used not merely to supplement the work of the high-school teachers. It is primarily meant for an estimated 14,000 high schools that have no trained physics teacher at all. With other such projects in the works, E.B.F. may not only become more and more influential...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Help on Celluloid | 4/29/1957 | See Source »

...concerns sports, Radcliffe is "more a Boston school than a Big Seven school," Miss Luyten has explained. With the exception of Pembroke and Jackson, she said, the other women's schools in the Seven College Conference deem it "un-ladylike" to play full-length intercollegiate games, and will meet Radcliffe only in the annual Wellesley Playday...

Author: By Martha E. Miller, | Title: Radcliffe Sextet Loses Tight Game To Jackson to Close Out Its Season | 3/20/1957 | See Source »

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