Word: butlers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...series of three drama lectures last Thursday night. Speaking in Allston Burr Hall, he gave his views on "The Dramatist in the Theatre." Johnston, currently professor of English at Mt. Holyoke, gained much of his theatrical experience at the Abbey Theatre in Ireland under the guiding genius of William Butler Yeats...
...simplicity itself according to the script. Raised as a white belle amidst Kentucky's bluegrass, she learns that her mamma was a Negro, and she is hauled off to be knocked down for $5,000 at a New Orleans slave auction. Her gallant buyer: an aging Rhett Butler, again played by Clark Gable (under the assumed name of Hamish Bond...
...climaxed by her Twilight Has Fallen, and Butterfly's lingering, final-curtain suicide touched off a round of applause that lasted through ten curtain calls. Technically, there were a few first-night bobbles. Gusts off the hills threatened to sweep away the Japanese screens, but Stage Director Bill Butler was jubilant. Said he: "At least we've taken the curse off the new paint...
Died. Nobile Giacomo de Martino, 89, veteran Italian diplomat, who served as post-World War I Ambassador to Berlin, London, Tokyo and the U.S. (1925-32); in Rome. His forceful protest against a personal attack on Mussolini by Major General Smedley D. Butler, U.S.M.C. (who accused II Duce of running over a child, called him a "hit-and-run driver") resulted in an apology from Secretary of State Henry L. Stimson...
...combination," says Piatigorsky, rolling his sad, spaniel-brown eyes. "Sometimes when I come in with my cello in the little parts assigned to me, I am told to 'go over there in the corner and play.' It is not so good, really, as years ago when our butler, Dr. Wallisch, played the piano. He had once been a music critic in Vienna. With him, we were quite good sometimes...