I had a long and happy career as a school librarian, but to tell you the truth since I was a girl I dreamt of a life on the stage! Acting runs in my family. My beautiful and glamorous great-aunt Miriam Elias studied at the Moscow Art Theatre with the great Stanislavski, and according to family legend, had a dalliance with the great Russian artist and theatre designer Marc Chagall. In Moscow she married another designer, Boris Aronson. The marriage didn’t last, but years...
Archive - June 2015
We’ve lost too many good friends this year and one was Judy Revis. In 1967 a few months after I met my husband Danny, we drove from New York to Boston to spend New Year’s Eve with Danny’s college roommate Kenny and his wife Judy. I liked them immediately, but over the following many years, geography kept us apart. Although Kenny and Danny spoke often and had their Brandeis friendship to build on, Judy and I saw each too seldom to form a really close bond. But...