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Died. Susan Glaspell, 66, little-theater pioneer, novelist, and Pulitzer Prizewinning playwright (Alison's House, 1930); of virus pneumonia; in Provincetown, Mass. She and first husband George Cram ("Jig") Cook led the experimentalists' rebellion against Broadway commercialism at their ramshackle Wharf Theater in Provincetown, gave Eugene O'Neill's first plays their first performances, helped found Manhattan's famed Provincetown Players in 1916, and wet-nursed the little-theater movement...
...Married. Alison Stilwell, 26, Peking-born artist, daughter of the late General Joseph W. ("Vinegar Joe") Stilwell; and Air Force Lieut. Colonel William Roderick Cameron, 27; in Carmel, Calif...
Eastward in Eden (by Dorothy Gardner; produced by Nancy Stern) is the third play (the others: Alison's House, Brittle Heaven) to treat of New England's renowned recluse, Poetess Emily Dickinson (1830-86). By now it should be clear that Emily, whose life was as inward as it was intense, is not the likeliest sort of figure for the public glare of the stage...
...Students BAPTIST: Rev. Prentiss L. Pemberton; CONGREGATIONAL: Rev. Leonard G. Clough; EPISCOPAL: Rev. Frederic B. Kellogg, Rev. John. W. Ellison; FRIENDS: Mr. George A. Selleck; JEWISH: Rabbi Harry Essrig; LUTHERAN: Rev. Edmund A. Steinile; METHODIST: Rev. Earle H. Furgeson, Rev. George T. Kennedy; PRESBYTERIAN: Rev. Cecil H. Rose, Rev. Alison R. Bryan; UNITARIAN: Rev. Robert...
...Hands uses brushless shaving cream and washes in a bucket. Fatty Teedale is "the only man in the Brigade of Guards who . . . bites his toenails" ("It makes my blood run cold to hear him"), and keeps the most promising growth for "a long bite . . . after Church Parade." Slugging Private Alison dreams of a hand-to-hand fight-to-the-death between Churchill and Hitler ("Old Winnie breathes 'eavy, but 'itler breathes worse...