Word: flanagan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...battleship ($46,000,000), employed 13,000 people at its peak, gave 63,600 performances of 1,200 major productions to audiences of 30,300,000, of whom some 65% had never before seen a living actor at work. This whopping project was run by tiny, greenish-eyed Hallie Flanagan, head of Vassar College's Experimental Theatre. Last week Hallie Flanagan published an ardent, lively history of Federal Theatre, Arena (Duell, Sloan & Pearce; $3), winding up with a blast at the politicos who finally packed the whole huge show off to the storehouse...
...four years, Federal Theatre fulfilled its purpose: relief. In the process it made many original contributions to theatre art. Among them were its productions of Marlowe's Dr. Faustus and T. S. Eliot's religious drama Murder in the Cathedral, the Negro Swing Mikado, etc. But Hallie Flanagan is especially proud of the socio-esthetic achievement as a whole, of the fact that millions were given a wide gamut of drama from Euripides to O'Neill, as well as musical comedies, pageants, ballets, puppet shows, children's plays, foreign-language productions, radio programs. She gets...
...Hartford City, and the Scottish Rite at Fort Wayne. He became well known in Indiana industrial circles, active in philanthropies. In 1925 he established the Akron Foundation "to minister to human wants and needs and alleviate suffering." He financed the college careers of several boys, contributed to Father Flanagan's Boys' Home enterprise, gave generously to many another charity...
Married. Ruth Jump, 19, 1936 women's national high-platform diving champion; and Ralph Flanagan, 22, bigtime amateur swimmer (last year he held four places on the National A. A. U. All-America swimming team); after an airplane elopement; in Yuma, Ariz...