The
Chesley Memorial Library Board of Trustees will hold an Open
House to celebrate the traveling art exhibit The Road Not Taken,
Artistic Impressions of the Poetry of Robert Frost, art by New
Hampshire artists Inge Seaboyer, Judy Krassowski and Corinne
Dodge. The Open House will be held at the Chesley Memorial
Library on Tuesday, May 30, from 4:00-7:00 p.m. Northwood
School fourth graders will also be displaying projects from
their New Hampshire unit. The Road Not Taken will remain
on display at the library until the end of June.
Letter To The Editor
This Thursday, May 25th, the Northwood
School District Strategic Planning Committee will hold its first
meeting at 6pm in the school library. This meeting is open
to the public and anyone in the community is welcome to come
observe and contribute. There are also still openings on
the committee itself -- if you’re interested in joining, please
email Dr. Gadomski at [email protected].
Keith McGuigan, Northwood School Board
This Weekend’s LRPA After Dark Feature:
1934’s “Of Human
Bondage”
Join Lakes Region Public Access Television at 10:30
p.m. this Friday and Saturday night (May 26 & 27) for our “LRPA
After Dark” presentation of 1934’s melodrama “Of Human Bondage,”
starring Bette Davis and Leslie Howard.
In “Of Human
Bondage,” we meet Philip Carey (Howard), socially awkward and
painfully self-conscious due to a clubfoot. He has dreams of
becoming an artist, but is advised by his teacher to give up on
those dreams due to limited talent. Philip returns home to
London to enroll in medical school. Joining a fellow student at
a tearoom, Philip meets Mildred Rogers (Davis), a vulgar Cockney
waitress who attracts many of her male customers with her wanton
ways. Philip tries to flirt with Mildred, but she rudely rebuffs
him. Undaunted, he persuades her to go on a dinner date, where
she continues to mistreat him. Philip becomes obsessed with
Mildred, daydreaming of her instead of studying for his exams.
He proposes marriage, but she rejects him for another man,
taunting him for loving her, and leaving Philip brokenhearted.
Just as Philip is getting back on his feet and finding
contentment with another woman, Mildred returns – with another
man’s child. Will Philip learn from his mistakes, or will the
bond that he feels for Mildred draw him back under her
spell?
Bette Davis was so convinced that “Of Human Bondage”
would be her breakthrough film that for six straight months, she
begged Jack L. Warner, the head of Warner Brothers, to lend her
out to RKO to make this picture. Warner felt that the terribly
unglamorous and indecent part would ruin her career, but he
eventually gave in. It was the right decision, as both critics
and movie goers alike found her spellbinding in this sadistic,
heartless role. Davis had made 21 films before “Of Human
Bondage,” but Mildred the waitress was the character that
catapulted her to Hollywood superstardom. “Of Human Bondage” was
adapted from the W. Somerset Maugham novel and made into a movie
two more times, once in 1946 with Paul Henreid and Eleanor
Parker, and again in 1964, with Kim Novak and Laurence Harvey.
Neither film was the critical success that is our original. The
New York Times critic Mordaunt Hall wrote that Davis’s portrayal
of Mildred was “enormously effective” and said this of Leslie
Howard’s performance: “One might be tempted to say that his
portrait of Philip Carey excels any performance he has given
before the camera.” This movie truly is a classic. Grab your
popcorn and meet us after dark for the movie that made la Davis
a star.
Congressional Art Award winning photograph Naturally Formed
Bottom Half of Frosty by CBNA senior Curtis Lashon to be
displayed for the next year in Washington, D.C.
CBNA Students Participate In Congressional Art Competition
The following 16 Coe-Brown Northwood Academy students recently
participated in the 35th annual Congressional Art Competition:
An Artistic Discovery in Congresswoman Ann Kuster’s Second
Congressional District: from Barrington - Sarah Doiron; from
Northwood - Nicolas LaMontagne, Curtis Lashon, Mabel Mackey,
Emily Marie, Aimee Mason, and Sarah Turmel; from Nottingham -
Shannon Jackson, Raven Barnes, Maeve Kibbie, and Serena Poulin;
from Strafford - Emelia Cronshaw, Rebekah Hinrichsen, Olivia
Lee, Brielle Macleod, and Fiona O’Shea . The exhibition,
reception, and awards ceremony took place on Friday, May 12 at
the Kimball Jenkins School of Art in Concord. The first
place award was presented to CBNA senior Curtis Lashon for his
photograph entitled: Naturally Formed Bottom Half of Frosty.
The color digital photograph will be framed and will be on
display in the tunnel connecting the Congressional Delegation in
Washington, DC. beginning in June, 2017 through May, 2018. In
addition, several students received scholarship offers from the
New Hampshire Institute of Art in Manchester. Seniors
Emelia Cronshaw, Sarah Turmel, and Curtis Lashon were offered
BFA Scholarships, while junior Sarah Doiron, and sophomore
Serena Poulin each received summer workshop scholarships.
Congratulations to all.
