Word: awakener
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tragedy entitled "When we dead awaken," will be given by the members of the Civic Repertory Theatre of New York on Friday and Saturday, December 11 and 12 in Brattle Hall. The play is considered by F. S. Cawley '10, assistant professor of Scandinavian languages, to be a drama that is as true to life now as it was when Henrik Ibsen wrote...
While hiring his talent in Manhattan, Director Golterman came across the most newsworthy member of his troupe-Helen Gahagan, who played the part of the hard-to-awaken operactress in David Belasco's last production, Tonight or Never and married Melvyn Douglas, her leading man (TIME, April 12). On the evening her play closed she met Director Golterman, expressed a wish to make her U. S. début in his company. In 15 min. a contract was drawn up and she announced: "I am happy to make my American début in Ohio because my grandmother...
...After dinner he chatted quietly with his son, who since Jan. 1 has also been his partner in Kuhn, Loeb. About 10:30 he went to his bedroom, put his knife, wallet, loose change and other knickknacks on the dresser, went to bed. About 4 a. m. he awakened and felt a strange sensation near his heart. He arose, put on a silk dressing gown, wrapped himself in a blanket and sat by the window. It was in this position that he was found by his valet who entered the room to awaken him at 7 o'clock...
...Doris Duke (born 1912) who will become a trustee when she reaches her majority. Many a newspaper column has been devoted to Doris and her wealth ($53,000,000), her presentation at the Court of St. James's, her expensive debut at Newport last year (she was supposed to awaken to melodious chimes, bathe in water from an illuminated fountain, travel with a body-guard). Like many another rich Southern woman, Mrs. Duke is conservative, quiet, charming. Her fellow trustees regard her as a fine figure of a woman, find her (unlike the Southern woman of tradition) able and efficient...
Triangle shows must have a story, however remote from the general scheme of entertainment. This year's story concerns Wilbur Wilkins, the campus loafer (Joshua Logan), whose policies are op posed by Buck Heyward (Harold Tasker), the villain who wishes to awaken Prince ton from its beer-drinking lethargy. Vil lain Heyward also covets the affections of Miss Graham (Harry Dunham), daughter of Professor Graham (James Henry Breasted Jr., son of famed Orientalist Breasted of the University of Chicago). He is thwarted by handsome Bruce Pelham (James Stewart). The plot then skips 100 years by the simple method...