Since I refer to it so often in the episode, and because I call the veracity of its details into question during this episode, I thought it was only fair that I reproduce the entire chapter about John A. Arneaux in William Simmons' book Men of Mark: Eminent, Progressive and Rising. The engraving of Arneaux, depicted in a classical bust, is printed at the end of the chapter, and is shown above. (I'll speak more about this engraving in Part Two!)
For those wishing to see an online facsimile of the entire book, it is available on Google Books:
https://www.google.com/books/edition/_/2QUJ419VR4AC?hl=en&gbpv=0
The Invention of the Wilma - Episode 106
Header Image: George Tynan Crowley (left), Ian Merrill Peaks (center) and Mark Alhadeff (right) sail out into the air, during Blanka Zizka's February 2000 production of Tom Stoppard's The Invention of Love.
(By the way, in our NEXT episode we will …
The Zizkas Surprise Themselves - Episode 105
Header image, above: Blanka and Jiri Zizka at their new theater space on Sansom Street, 1983.
Above and below: Production photos from the Wilma Project's Animal Farm, 1979 - adapted from George Orwell's 1945 novel. The figure in the mask re…
