Word: chapman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seven years in Hollywood, caught the critical eyes focused on Molnar's The Play's the Thing. The Times's Brooks Atkinson noted her "high spirit and versatility"; the Herald Tribune's Howard Barnes found her "attractive and promising"; the Daily News's John Chapman, "entirely acceptable"; PM's Louis Kronenberger, "Fetching to look at... pleasant to listen to." Mother-in-Law Eleanor Roosevelt, back from London just in time to watch from the second row, told Columnist Earl Wilson that Faye looked real pretty...
...Stade '38, director of Scholarships, announced that the winners, chosen on the basis of their mid-year Group One records, are Sherman Henry Hawkins of Matthews Hall and Walpole, Anthony Gervin Oettinger of Weld Hall and New York City, and John Chapman Pittenger of Thayer Hall and Nottingham, Pennsylvania...
Relentless (Columbia). Robert Young, Marguerite Chapman and Barton MacLane in a Technicolored scrimmage for gold. Their work and an unusually good production give this slick western an illusion of quality it doesn't really have...
Radiomen regard Grauer as one of the glibbest ad-libbers on the air. But like all announcers, he has had his share of slips. His favorite printable one was a spoonerism. After guiding the late Carrie Chapman Catt through a difficult broadcast, Grauer turned to her in relief and said, all too clearly, "Thank you, Mrs. Catt, we are deepful grately...
...York Daily News Drama Critic John Chapman, after viewing the chichi opening of Tonight at 8:30 (see THEATER), let go a loaded paragraph at first-night audiences: "They lit matches and smoked in the aisles . . . haughtily ignoring the feeble bleats of ushers who kept trying to tell these jerks that one doesn't do that sort of thing . . . in a sardine box like the National [Theater], I tried to find the fireman assigned to the house to suggest [that he] haul some well-dressed slob ... up to night court. But he wasn't around. Maybe...