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In 1947, she triumphed as Medea in a version of Euripides' eponymous tragedy, written by poet Robinson Jeffers and produced by John Gielgud, who played Jason. She was a friend of Jeffers and a frequent visitor to his home Tor House in Carmel. [24] She won the Tony Award for Best Actress for her performance. The show ran for 214 performances.
The Tall Target is a 1951 American historical crime film directed by Anthony Mann and starring Dick Powell, Paula Raymond and Adolphe Menjou.Powell stars as a police sergeant who tries to stop the assassination of Abraham Lincoln at a train stop as Lincoln travels to his inauguration.
Jeffers was born January 10, 1887, [2] in Allegheny, Pennsylvania (now part of Pittsburgh), the son of Reverend Dr. William Hamilton Jeffers, a Presbyterian minister and scholar of ancient languages and Biblical history, and Annie Robinson Tuttle.
Jeffers transposed elements of this biblical story to a Californian setting. [5] Among Jeffers' notes from the writing of Tamar is a table that shows how characters in the poem are meant to correspond to biblical figures: David is King David , Lee is Amnon, Will is Absalom and Tamar is Tamar.
Jan Assmann: Thomas Mann und Ägypten. Mythos und Monotheismus in den Josephsromanen. C. H. Beck Verlag, München 2006. ISBN 3-406-54977-2; Thomas L. Jeffers, "God, Man, the Devil—and Thomas Mann", Commentary (November 2005), 77–83. Hermann Kurzke: Mondwanderungen. Ein Wegweiser durch Thomas Manns Josephs-Roman. Fischer Verlag Frankfurt am ...
With The Smart Set in perpetual decline, Mann sold the magazine in Spring 1911 to John Adams Thayer for $100,000. [23] [24] [25] Thayer was a self-made millionaire who had "made a personal fortune as a successful advertising manager at the Ladies' Home Journal." [18]
Tor House and Hawk Tower are buildings in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, United States.They were the home of poet Robinson Jeffers and family from 1919 to 1999. The two structures, often referred to jointly as Tor House, are generally believed [by whom?] to have played a crucial role in the development of Robinson Jeffers as a poet.
Today, a few structures remain as reminders of past activities. Axemann Spring still flows and Mann Road crosses the creek opposite the spring. A shed at the crossing was part of the factory. A large stone house, Mann's Edgefonte, sits near the spring house and was the home for Mann and his bride. The original Mann house sits across the street.