Word: baker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week Waiting for Lefty had been banned in seven cities on one ambiguous pretext or another. In Boston the police ran the New Theatre Players out of two houses, finally locked up four actors on charges of "profanity and blasphemy." After winning the George Pierce Baker Cup at the Yale Drama School for its performance of the play, the Unity Players were forbidden in future to act Waiting for Lefty anywhere in New Haven. It took a concerted move by University liberals to smash the ban. When the Collective Theatre tried to put on Waiting for Lefty in Newark...
...Armstrong, W. P. Armstrong, F. J. T. Baker, E. L. Barnes, J. B. Bayley, C. C. Beamen, R. P. Bentley, G. W. Bergquist, R. L. Biggers, J. Bird, R. H. Bishop, R. S. Borden, R. S. Brainerd, S. Brayton, S. H. Brennan, W. B. Brewster, J. H. Brooks, L. H. Brown, W. H. Brown, G. Cummin, A. Damon, C. C. Daughaday, E. F. Davis, N. V. Davis, H. DeKruif, R. C. Diserens, J. E. Dodge, R. F. Duncan, M. Earle, C. R. Englund, L. W. Field, J. L. Foster, H. E. Gibby, T. J. Goodman, R. L. Gregg...
...Mineola, L. I. last year Mrs. Lucy Steele Kirk, Christian Scientist, sued George Cisler for $10,000 for damages from an automobile accident. A jury found for the defendant because Supreme Court Justice Paul Bonynge charged it solemnly to ponder whether, to a follower of Mary Baker Eddy, injuries and pains could be real (TIME, June 25). This spring a higher court ordered a new trial, holding that Justice Bonynge had erred in letting Christian Science "creep into the trial in a manner inviting, to the plaintiff's prejudice, personal issues between her and the jury." Last week...
...Rockefellers, Harknesses and Whitneys. And the Pratt family is a close-knit unit. On a 1,000-acre tract in lush Glen Cove, L. I. are seven Pratt houses-four occupied by Brothers Herbert, Charles, Harold and Frederic, another by the widow of Brother John, onetime Congresswoman Ruth Baker Pratt. In the centre of their communal estate are their stables and dairy barns, an institutional layout manned by numberless grooms and milkmen. As many as 100 big & little Pratts and their in-laws assemble for annual Christmas family reunions...
HARVEY A. BAKER...