Word: acclaimed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Russell Allen '38, captain of the team, Richard Cresson Harlow, its coach, and Roger B. Merriman '96. Gurney Professor of History, drew highest acclaim for their speeches...
...Sweet Nell of Old Drury, a salaryless Actors Equity benefit. Actor Lunt recalls it as his wife's first part as a beauty, in the role of Lady Castlemaine, remembers that they spent all their ready cash on fake jewelry to make her look more fetching. The acclaim for the new stage beauty was led by Mr. Lunt's deaf mother, Mrs. Harriet Sederholm, whose untempered voice could be heard quite plainly from the audience asking her neighbor, "Isn't she a dream...
...World affairs by insisting that she and her little sister Princess Margaret Rose be permitted to ride with Their Majesties in the glittering State Coach to the opening of Parliament this week. Their Majesties had resolved that their little daughters shall not be "spoiled" by too much public acclaim. Princess Elizabeth lost her battle at the last moment and she and her sister rode to the opening in the coach of Lady Helen Graham, which followed the royal conveyance. Asserting that 37-year-old Queen Elizabeth "could still have another child" who if male would be Prince of Wales, United...
...flop; When the Harris option lapsed, Abbott looked at the script, felt warmly toward it because it was about Broadway, suggested a few changes. The authors condensed three scenes into one, picked a tag for it out of the second act, Abbott sent it on to wild acclaim. In similar warmhearted fashion he undertook Brother Rat because it was a play about youngsters written by youngsters (John Monks Jr. & Fred F. Finklehoffe, V. M. I. '32). It had been returned by 31 other managements. The Abbott touch converted it into a Broadway hit, a $150,000 film property (Warners...
...Eloise Staats of Greenwich, Conn., who raises horses on her Colorado ranch, and a host of other socialites. There was so much alcoholic garrulity in the packed house that the first two acts were hardly audible, but the audience calmed down during the third act and erupted in thunderous acclaim at the final curtain. The play will run at Central City for three weeks. Producer Harris is pointing it for Manhattan this autumn, believes he has a smash...