Word: alden
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. John Alden Loring, 76, explorer and naturalist who as a representative of the Smithsonian Institution tramped around East Africa with Teddy Roosevelt, wrote a book about it (Through Africa With Roosevelt); of a heart attack; in Owego...
Died. Captain Alden G. Howell, 106, who rode to war 86 years ago, saw Stonewall Jackson shot, lived to be the last surviving Confederate officer, oldest Mason in the U.S.; in Los Angeles...
Author Craig Gilbert got hold of a good historical triangle in the Miles Standish-Priscilla Mullins-John Alden business, molded assorted Pilgrims and Indians into some stock but sound musical comedy characters, and came through with a creation that manages not to sag between the songs, which is no small feat. Nor do the songs delay the action of the book. Both come together into a balanced musical that is played with the sort of informal enthusiasm that can make a good amteur show more entertaining than all but the best of professional shows...
...cast: David S. Biddle '49 as John Alden; J. Jay Hughes '48 as Standish; Julian B. Hatton, Jr. '48 as Priscilla; Jerome Dickinson '48 as Desire; Frederick F. Lamont, Jr. '48 as Billington; Theodore Allegretti '47 as Massassoit; Eugene A. Gruhler '46 as Whitefeather ' Charles G. Loring, Jr. '48 as Pratt; Edward M. Lamont '48 as Carver; J. Bradley Cumings 3rd '46 as Allerton; Robert L. Daley '47 as Humility complete the list...
Also in the chorus are: Alden A. Larson '48; Robert W. Locke 2nd '47; Austin F. Lyne '48; Daniel J. Lyne '49; Eugene Lyne ocC; David E. McGiffert '49; Arthur B. Nichols '48; Robert B. Owen '47; Robert L. Purinton '46; John R. Rand '50; Robert E. Zaugg...