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Things have changed up the river. Lenny Bruce was fond of casting the typical oldtime prison flick with little-known B players: "Charles Bickford, Barton MacLane, George E. Stone, Frankie Darro, Warren Hymer, Nat Pendleton, and the Woman Across the Bay, Ann Dvorak." But now, judging from Riot, the big house has gone mod, and there is no need for such durable old stereotypes. Riot concocts a fresh new batch...
...show and making an even bigger hit than he did as Hildy Johnson in the Hecht-MacArthur show. "Look at the personality I got" became a byword in the '20s, and he was already a made man by the time the other show came in. Earlier, with Charlie Bickford, just before Broadway, he played a minor part in Glory Hallelujah, opening the show with the only line out of it anyone ever remembered: "Pack of Camels," said Tracy-and what was memorable about that I can't myself conjecture, but many people did remember it and still...
...Harvard administrators claim that students are listened to and have influence already: 'Any good idea will be approved, no matter if it comes from the students, the faculty, or Hayes-Bickford...
Harvard administrators claim that students are listened to and have influence already: "Any good idea will be approved, no matter if it comes from the students, the faculty or Hayes-Bickford." But even communication between students and faculty--the basis of any meaningful contact--is haphazard if not non-existent. Some examples of this occurred this fall. The Committee on the Houses (COH) relied on the CRIMSON to communicate to the Harvard Undergraduate Council (HUC) its decision regarding the HUC's parietals proposal and the HUC's request to meet with the COH. In fact, the official spokesman for this...
Died. Charles Bickford, 78, veteran actor; of emphysema; in Los Angeles. A ruddy-faced onetime lumberjack, Bickford most often merely played himself-a rough, tough, but good and decent man, remembered as the priest in The Song of Bernadette (1944), and recently as the leathery ranch owner in TV's The Virginian...