Word: calvert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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First play to hit the airwaves will be "The Case of Jack Freysling" an adaption of a short story by Thomas Calvert McClarey. This will be followed by "One Night in a Ballroom," a "fantastic comedy," by Paul W. Mandel '51 and William S. Wheeling '50, with incidental music by William P. Perry...
Baltimore's Calvert School calls itself "The School That Comes to You." It operates a mail-order business that sends complete grade-school courses to the isolated and the bedridden all over the world. Calvert got into the business back in 1897, when all its own pupils were quarantined in their homes by a whooping-cough epidemic. Since then,, mothers all over the world have switched to Calvert. Its courses, complete with textbooks, paper, pencils, pictures and prints-and parent-proof instructions on how to teach, tell stories, deal with disobedience and sex problems-have inched up the Yangtse...
Last week, as Calvert celebrated its 50th anniversary, it got its biggest order yet. Its latest pupils: 3,020 sons & daughters of the U.S. occupation forces in Japan...
This is the report brought back from a seven-month, 36,000-mile swing around the Near and Far East by two top U.S. Jesuits: Missionary-Photographer Father Bernard Hubbard ("The Glacier Priest") and Father Calvert Alexander, onetime reporter for the St. Louis Star-Times and now editor of the monthly Jesuit Missions...
These losses, which Rank can ill afford, have taught him to change his way of treating his stars. He had been content to make verbal contracts with them. But when Phyllis Calvert, the No. 2 female star in Britain, went to Hollywood to visit and came back with a written contract, he decided that he had better get tougher. (He refuses to make another picture with Calvert, saying sadly: "I have turned her picture to the wall.") Rank now leashes his people with seven-year contracts before letting them loose in Hollywood...