Word: baker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Every year Harvard graduates several men whose intended career is the theatre and its allied arts, and she may point with pride at many illustrious examples, such as Osgood Perkins, Walter Hampden, Kenneth Macgowan, John Mason Brown, and Donald Oenslager. Back in the days of Professor Baker's English 47 and the Workshop, the stream of Harvard men into the theatre's ranks was steady and large, but with Professor Baker's and the Drama department's migration to New Haven, the torrent dwindled to a mere trickle, fed only by the untiring efforts of the Dramatic Club. The students...
...Drama Department, offering training in all branches of the theatre, should be under the direction of an experienced and practical man of the theatre. Such a man is John Mason Brown. Under his direction, Harvard would once more rise to the place at the head she enjoyed under Professor Baker, and no longer would any such unfortunate and not-to-be-repeated situation of the Dramatic Club arise. Marston S. Leonard...
...next afternoon, when the general strike began, not a brewer, baker, barber, barkeep or beautician was operating in all Pekin. In freezing cold union delegates had informed all merchants that if their shops were not locked up by the strike's deadline, their windows would be smashed. Not a shop in Pekin was open after 3 p.m. Six hundred allied workers at Corn Products Refining Co. then voted to walk out. Other workers promised to quit in sympathy...
Josephine Baker is a St. Louis wash woman's daughter who stepped out of a Negro burlesque show into a life of adulation and luxury in Paris during the booming 1920's. In sex appeal to jaded Europeans of the jazz-loving type, a Negro wench always has a head start. The particular tawny tint of tall and stringy Josephine Baker's bare skin stirred French pulses. But to Manhattan theatre-goers last week she was just a slightly buck-toothed young Negro woman whose fig ure might be matched in any night club show, whose dancing...
...Chicago Municipal Court, Baker Charles Abrams sued Baker Fred Kapche for $30 for lessons in how to ice cakes, said he would drop the suit if he could not frost a cake twice as beautifully as Kapche. Kapche went to work with frosting tubes on a big cake. He painstakingly squeezed out four robins' nests, three blue eggs, seven pink sweet pea blossoms, two yellow marigolds and a "Happy Birthday...