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...last playwriting course at the University was given by Professor George Pierce Baker '87, who taught here from 1907 until 1928. Several plays written in Baker's course were produced by professional companies. The most successful, Frederick Ballard's Believe Me, Zantippe ran for 11 weeks in Boston and 20 weeks in New York...
...annual Hasty Pudding Theatricals dinner held Thursday at the club-house, Robert F. R. Ballard '56, of New York City, and Robert Bickford '56 were appointed president and vice-president respectively of next year's 108th production. Ballard served as publicity director for "Happy Medium," this year's show...
...what's on-beat take a beating, and Broadway seem a little backward. The Golden Apple transports the Trojan War set, with considerable irreverence, to the U.S. around 1900-specifically, to a small town near Mt. Olympus, Wash. "Roughly the first half acts out the Iliad: Helen (Kay Ballard), the wife of a local dignitary, runs off with a drummer named Paris (Jonathan Lucas) and after a lot of commotion comes home to hubby. The second half acts out the Odyssey: Ulysses, a Spanish-American war veteran, imbibes city life at a neighboring seaport, goes to a water front...
...father, an immigrant who learned the watchmaking craft in Czechoslovakia. Later, while the Swiss still depended mostly on handwork, Bulova expanded mass-production methods in the U.S., introduced more standard and interchangeable parts. These innovations, plus agressive advertising and sales promotion, masterminded by President John H. Ballard (Bulova is board chairman), were mainly responsible for lifting Bulova into its leading position among U.S. watchmakers...
Back in 1927, when radio was still young, Ballard began buying radio spot announcements, made the name Bulova synonymous with watches by dinning "Bulova Watch Time" into American ears an estimated 5 billion times in 26 years. Bulova's sales have climbed from about $4,700,000 in 1927 to more than $60 million in the last fiscal year (ending March 31), when the net profit...