Word: craig
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sure that a visiting college group could not have been better received anywhere. There will be a real comradeship in future years, thanks to the spirit of friendship so well generated in 1928. Sincerely yours, Louis A. Craig, Major, F. A. Professor of Military Science
Bankrupt. Arthur Benjamin Reeve, novelist, creator of "Craig Kennedy, the Scientific Detective." Author Reeve's affidavit, filed in Manhattan, stated that he owes nearly...
...stage. Sam H. Harris, no relative of Jed, will exhibit the Marx Brothers, Harpo (mum), Groucho (chattering), Chico (wop) and Zeppo in Animal Crackers. Arthur Hammerstein plans a "musicalization" of Alice in Wonderland. George C. Tyler will produce Macbeth with Margaret Anglin, Lyn Harding and settings by Gordon Craig. Anne Nichols threatens with Abie's Children and a musical version of Just Married. Florenz Ziegfeld has enticed Ina Claire back into the musical comedy from which she started. Alexander Moissi, late of Reinhardt's troupe, will appear, under the joint management of Edgar Selwyn and Morris Gest...
...stated by Forrest Izzard in Heroines of the Modern Stage that the father of Gordon Craig and Ailsa Craig, borne by Actress Ellen Terry, was Charles Wardell. Others have made this statement; many persons credit it. Let Arthur William Row name the father of Ellen Terry's children, if he can. If it is difficult to name the father of a lady's children, it is equally difficult to estimate posthumously her detestations. It is certain that Ellen Terry, toward the end of her life, sent messages of felicitation to U. S. admirers. Those, however, who knew...
...Gordon Craig, long before the death of his mother, had become a famous figure in Europe-first perhaps because of his affair with Isadora Duncan, whose affections had several of the attributes of a theatrical spotlight; then and more notably as a producer of plays and because of his superlative work as a scenic artist. He was making use of his artistry in a curious way last week. Dame Terry had requested her friends to wear no mourning to express an erroneous sorrow; she had written, "there is no death. What seems so is only transition." To emphasize this peaceful...