Word: davises
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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His place was taken by his assistant, a 33-year-old Harvardman named Philip Barber with much practical backstage experience with the Group Theatre and the Theatre Guild. Director Barber soothed things over for a while by substituting for the Ethiopian production a dramatization called Triple-A Plowed Under, which...
Jefferson Davis was written by John McGee, FTP regional director for the Southeast. In three acts and twelve scenes, this sombre pageant of the life of the Confederacy's first & only President unfolds with little liveliness but much discretion. Opening on the 75th anniversary of Davis' inaugural at...
Following the premiere of Jefferson Davis, nobody publicly rose to question the anomaly of employing Federal funds to present a waxworks glorification of an arch-enemy of the Union, but the venture was damned on practically all other counts.* "Jefferson Davis," observed the New York Sun, "from the standpoint of...
"Since Jefferson Davis is dedicated to provincial playgoers," sagely remarked the New York World-Telegram, "it is not to be considered by fastidious Broadway standards."
In the Varsity foils, Captain Philip Lilienthal, William Gerber, Wallace Cox, and Richard Morgan will represent the Crimson; Edwin Davis, Albert Weiner, Richard Ford, and Edward Miller are entered in the epee; while Howard Reynolds, Edwin Skinner, Richard Morgan, and Elmer Harp will compete in the sabre.