Word: beckhard
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harvest of Years (by DeWitt Bodeen; produced by Arthur J. Beckhard) is about a farm family named Bromark. It is rather like, if rather worse than, a good many other plays about farm families. Much happens in it, though little seems to. Margareta's man throws her over for her sister Mellie. Chris's girl passes him up for his nephew Jules. People drink; people squabble; babies are born; mothers die in childbirth. But for all that (says the author at the end) the sky doesn't fall in; actually, the family doesn't even fall...
...Love (by Edward Caulfield; produced by Arthur Beckhard & Victor Hugo-Vidal) concerns a lady scientist and a well-known actor (Lotus Robb and Walter Hampden) who meet through a marriage bureau, hide their identities, spend a trial fortnight in Connecticut...
Richard B. Adler '43, Waller R. Arnold '44, Elisha Atkins '42, George A. Ball '42, Bruce Barton, Jr. '43, William H. Batchelor '42, Walter J. Beckhard '42, Nicholas B. D. Biddle '44, Charles M. Bliss '43, Eugene L. Bondy '42, Leon H. Brachman...
...play could not be spoiled by any cast which so much as learned the lines. With so competent a cast (with the one exception) as Manager Beckhard has assembled the drama is well worth seeing--especially since students who present their bursar's card will be given a discount on the admission price...
Suspect (by Edward Percy & Reginald Denham; produced by Douglas MacLean & Arthur J. Beckhard). Three weeks ago Playwrights Percy & Denham scored a neat success on Broadway with their horror play, Ladies in Retirement. Not only is Suspect a much weaker play, but its good points are all hand-me-downs from Ladies in Retirement...