Word: baker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...veteran of vaudeville, cinema, radio, Comedian Phil Baker-as well known for his accordion-playing as for his clowning- for years wanted to play a legitimate role. "I'm tired"' said he, "of being an Edgar Bergen." Recently his ambition soared at the thought of playing the lead role of a hoofer in Robert E. Sherwood's Idiot's Delight, while his "idealism" was aroused by the play's anti-war message...
...Baker made arrangements with the Theatre Guild and Alfred Lunt, chucked his lucrative radio work, took Idiot's Delight on tour. Hailed as a natural for the hoofer role, he got rave notices. But the show did poor business, wound up its brief tour last week $10,000 in the red.* "Ten thousand dollars." said Baker, who is returning to radio to recoup before taking another crack at the stage, "is more than it was worth...
...meeting of the Advocate editors at Advocate House last night the following officers were elected: T. F. Bradshaw, '40, succeeding Samuel N. Hinckley, '39, as President; Gardner C. Quarton, '40, succeeding R. Palmer Baker, Jr., '39, as Secretary; Paul W. Cherington, '40, succeeding John H. Davies, '39 as Treasurer; Lonsdale F. Stowell, '41, as Advertising Manager; Samuel S. Binnian, '40, succeeding Allen W. Clowes, '39, as Circulation Manager; and John H. Huntington, '40, as Bacchus...
Contributing to the Symposium are: Conrad Aiken '11 (who was an editor of the Advocate at the same time as Eliot); Howard Baker, poet and Instructor in English; Richard Eberhart, poet and teacher of English at St. Mark's School, South borough; Robert T.S. Lowe '11; Archibald MacLeish, Curator of the Nieman Collection; Merrill Moore, sonneteer and Associate in Psychiatry; George Marion O'Donell, Frederick Prokosch, Wallace Stevens, Allen Tate, William Carlos Williams, and Robert Penn Warren, all prominent contemporary writers...
...Hilles had sat, though his committee back home had not voted for this. As an acknowledged leader of the young, "liberal" element in the party and as a demonstrably able political practitioner, he felt he deserved the place ahead of Herbert Hoover's candidate, Mrs. Ruth Baker Pratt, splendid committeewoman though she is. Unhappily for the party's publicity, Mr. Simpson cried: "The people have left the President, but they will turn to the Republican Party only if they are sure that it is not under the domination of Mr. Hoover, the Liberty League and some...