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...stage was presented very effectively as far as the mechanics were concerned. The noises of a spring shower and the attending roar of the street were as convincing as could be expected when they could be heard above the shoutings of Miss Inescort vociferously acting the part of Eliza, the "good" flower girl. The other members of the cast presented themselves in a more or less clamorous fashion...

Author: By H. B., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 1/15/1930 | See Source »

...minimum of preaching. The Doolittle pere, played by the enthusiastic Mr. Dudley Digges, is a thoroughly adequate disciple of the "undeserving" poor, while Higgins and Colonel Pickering in the persons of Messrs. Cabot and Waram stand by in due admiration for the Shavian doctrines the jubilantly impecunious father of Eliza propounds...

Author: By H. B., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 1/15/1930 | See Source »

...Eliza, Ill., bills have been posted announcing the public auction of the entire town, which comprises general store, drug store, barber shop, pool rooms, community building, grammar school...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Grocer | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

Russell Sage College (Troy, N. Y.) Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt, New York's Governor's wife L.H.D. Eliza Kellas, Emma Willard School principal LL.D...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: More Kudos | 6/24/1929 | See Source »

...girls' schools are the intellectually alive Brearley's; aristocratic, simple Miss Chapin's, lenient Finch. Famed private school principals throughout the country are Miss Marion Coats of the Sarah Lawrence Junior College, The Bronx; progressive Miss Elizabeth Johnson of the Baldwin School, Bryn Mawr, Pa.; Miss Eliza Kellas of well-equipped Emma Willard School in Troy, N. Y.; sound, slightly reactionary Miss Mira Hall of Miss Hall's in Pittsfield. Mass.; Miss Helen Tempte Cooke ("Dean of Girls' Schools"') of Dana Hall, Wellesley, Mass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: New Spence | 4/22/1929 | See Source »

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