Word: dells
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Farmer in the Dell. Contributors to the Associated Farmers, as revealed by the La Follette Committee, include: American Trust Co., Bank of America, Bank of California, Canners League, railroads, utilities, packers, employer associations. Claimed membership is 40,000. According to the La Follette Committee report, a truer figure would be something under 12,000. The membership includes a small percentage of small growers in the State who were scared by desperate, frequently reckless labor tactics and were genuinely hurt by growing labor costs. But the important membership is a large percentage of the large growers. They are the hierarchy...
...produced & acted by Jimmy Savo). Little Jimmy Savo with his big black eyes, dwarf's body and appallingly baggy pants has often been called one of the world's great clowns, a pantomimist in Chaplin's class. Highbrows have rhapsodically declared that he brings the Commedia dell' Arte back to one-man life. Hundreds of vaudeville audiences have paid him the simpler tribute of howling when he whispered the song River, Stay 'Way From My Door and shooed the river away with childlike gestures. His last Broadway appearance was in the Rodgers & Hart musical...
Radcliffe College and the Kathleen Dell school have both contributed to the recently chosen cast of the Harvard Dramatic Club's sixty-second production, "Too Much Johnson," the second play of the current season. This farcical comedy is being directed by Tod Squior '43, with Leonard Kent '43 as Assistant Director and Barney Lefferts '44 as Director's Assistant...
...actresses in "Too Much Johnson" are Miss Charlotte Armstrong of Radcliffe and Misses Claire Mathey and Claire Johnson of Kathleen Dell...
...orchestra shell was donated by retired Brewer Emil Blatz. Pianist Alec Templeton and Soprano Kirsten Flagstad trailed her, with five dates each. Flagstad drew 225,000 to Grant Park, 20,000 to Manhattan's Stadium, but only 3,000 on a hot night in Philadelphia's Dell. Oscar Levant's fame in Information Please is paying out. He had four engagements, drew 10,000 at Robin Hood Dell. Marian Anderson brought the Stadium its top audience, 23,000 customers. Last week Baritone John Charles Thomas and 8,000 other musicians, including a 2,000-piece band, packed...