Word: alan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Alan E. Heimert '49, Business Manager of the delayed book, reported that about $1400 is on hand, and that the largest single item outside of subscriptions of this total came from direct mail appeals to the parents of the class members. Frederic W. Richmond, Law School student whom Ryan termed "an expert businessman" secured a $600 response to his mimeographed form letter from which he received $125 as a commission...
Others elected were Roger P. English '50 as secretary, Thomas H. Philips '47, Alan E. Heimert '47, and H. M. Temple '47 to the executive council. Tryouts for the parts still available in the forth-coming production will be held tonight at 7:30 o'clock in Christ Church. The parts are open to both veterans and non-veterans...
...News Chronicle's Alan Dent wrote: "The emotion this great piece of acting evoked in this normally unenthusiastic breast of mine was re-echoed a thousandfold by the audience's yell of acclamation at the end." W. A. Darlington of the Daily Telegraph thought: "He was never less than first rate, and again and again he touched magnificent." Other critics merely repeated this theme...
...Alan Ladd, second only to Humphrey Bogart in consecutive hours of gun toting on the screen, tensely blows up tunnels, sends coded radio messages, and outwits the gestapo for Uncle Sam in "O.S.S." Based on actual events and produced under government supervision, Ladd's efforts as a spy in France just before and after the Normandy invasion generate a steady, if low, level of interest...
...expression-from bitter sophistication to tragic emotion, and again, to the softest compassion." Chimed the Daily Graphic's Elspeth Grant: "[A] magnificent . . . performance in a specious play. . . ." Wrote George Bishop of the Daily Telegraph: ". . . Magnificent poise ... the dignity of a queen. . . ." The News Chronicle's hard-eyed Alan Dent: "Eileen Herlie's powerful, central and splendid performance makes us long to see her in something saner." The often hard-boiled Noel Coward said simply: "We have seen the birth of a great tragic actress...