Word: bard
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Shakespeare is also advancing at a neat clip up the West Coast. Last month Cinemactor John Carradine (Grapes of Wrath, Reunion in France) "dress rehearsed" Othello, The Merchant of Venice, Hamlet, at Pasadena's famed Playhouse, a Shakespeare stronghold that has produced all 37 of the Bard's plays. Carradine's productions were thoughtful rather than exciting, shunned novelty and sensationalism: as Shylock, for example, Carradine refused to point up the racial issue. But, despite gas rationing, Carradine's three-week run broke all Playhouse records for Shakespeare, turned away 250 people a week...
...thoroughly does a man give himself away by his facial expression, his voice, the way he walks? Much more than he suspects, says Psychologist Werner Wolff of Bard College, Columbia University...
Married. Dorothy Thompson, 48, columnist; and Maxim Kopf, 51, refugee Czech artist; each for the third time; in Barnard, Vt. She divorced Sinclair Lewis last year, Austrian writer Josef Bard in 1927. After the bridal supper, the groom put on tights, did a one-man wrestling...
Spring is in Boston at last, so remember the words of the bard, "If music be the food of love, play on!" And Shakespeare was nobody's fool. We'll see you there...
...Public Education Association of New York straightway stood aghast. Cried they: "We stand aghast!" And would the good Doctor pray explain, if that was the way he felt about progressive education, why Columbia maintained its progressive Bard College and Horace Mann-Lincoln School of Teachers College...