Word: caseyed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Ernest Lawrence ("Phinney") Thayer, 77, bronzed, snow-haired author of the famed doggerel, Casey at the Bat; of cerebral hemorrhage; in Santa Barbara, Calif. Still engraved in schoolboy hearts of the '90s is its closing quatrain...
Since David Lewis had sold Hal Wallis the novel, he looked like the logical producer. Equally inevitable seemed the choice of Casey Robinson, who scripted such Bette Davis successes as Dark Victory and The Old Maid, to turn the 600 crowded Field pages into a workable screen treatment. So Producer Lewis and Scripter Robinson holed up for five days in Phoenix, Ariz., emerged with a 90-page synopsis, which Scripter Robinson expanded into a 225-page script-too long for the most ambitious of photoplays...
...week's end, the case of the Consul's letter was a cause celebre. In Washington, some half-dozen New England Congressmen, three Senators rose to defend the freedom of the press. Representative John E. Casey announced that an agent of the Dies Committee was on his way to Boston to investigate the Nazi Consulate's un-American activities...
...Best actress: Sara Allgood, as ill-used, valiant-hearted Juno in the revival of Sean O'Casey's Juno and the Paycock...
...program will be; Mozart, Masonic music; Webbe, "Glorious Apollo;" Purcell, "Three Catches;" Schubert, "La Pastorella;" Piston, Carnival Song for men's voices and brass; Thompson, "Tarantella;" American Folk Song, "Casey Jones;" Fay, "Harvard to the Harvard Team...