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...American Academy in Rome has awarded Rome Prize Fellowships to two students here. Howard Hibbard, John Thornton Kirkland Travelling Fellow, and Dorothy A. Freeman, Radcliffe 8G, will receive fellowships valued at $3,000 for one year's study in Rome...
...there were other historically contributing factors. Gertrude S. and Virgil T. had long been thinking independently about the artistic expression of America's 19th century. They met early in the 1920's, quite naturally in Paris, where Gertrude's flock then and later included Hemingway, Sherwood Anderson, and Thornton Wilder...
...Matchmaker (by Thornton Wilder) by another name did not smell anything like so sweet. As The Merchant of Yonkers-a rewrite of a century-old Viennese farce-it was pretty much of a flop when produced on Broadway in 1938. But as further rewritten by Playwright Wilder and lustily staged by Tyrone Guthrie, what once merely clattered now careens, what formerly sputtered now explodes...
Margaret sounded fine last week as she chatted with Playwright Thornton Wilder ("I adore Thornton Wilder") and Pianist Liberace ("extremely gracious"). The week before, when the show got off to a fast start, she had sounded just as good chatting by phone with Jimmy Durante. Margaret: "Thanks for calling, Jimmy. You're the most." Jimmy: "It's the least...
...professorship is held annually by an individual of distinguished achievement in the fine arts. Last year the position remained unfilled when none of those invited were able to accept. Past holders include T. S. Eliot, Thornton Wilder, e. e. cummings, Robert Frost, Igor Stravinsky, Paul Hindemith, and Aaron Copland...