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Philip Feldman, Robert Sidney Frankel, Maurice Stanley Friedman, Forrest Richard Gilmore, Milton William Hamolsky, James Dudley Hawks, Edward Michael Hoffernan H, Richard Henry, Jr. Peter Jacob Hirsch, Howard Phineas Kinsey Hoddick, John Walkley Holmes...
...small edition in 1900. This play he thinks was the first to use the line, "And the villain still pursued her." Most painstaking search was for the script of Metamora: or, The Last of the Wampanoags, first actable U. S. drama about American Indians, and a favorite of Edwin Forrest. This week the Lost Plays series presents Flying Scud, one of six lost dramas by Dion Boucicault. Its claim to fame: the line "I've got to see a man about...
Most U. S. theatres are either obsolete or stupid. Famed in the profession is the Forrest Theatre in Philadelphia, where the builder forgot dressing rooms. Another building had consequently to be bought on the next street, to which actors could commute by tunnel. First-rate modern architects have usually done business with individuals who want sensible homes or with industrialists who want sensible factories. Broadway has been no place for them...
...grew up to own a plantation, fight under Longstreet in Lee's Army of Northern Virginia, raid with Forrest, build railroads with a fellow Confederate veteran, Colonel Thurmond, after Appomattox. He fought duels, wrote a popular thriller, The White Rose of Memphis, which had sold 160,000 copies before it went out of print 30 years ago, made the grand tour of Europe, always went armed. He also quarreled with peace-loving Partner Thurmond, ran against him for the legislature. On election day 1889, after a savage campaign, Colonel Falkner walked out unarmed after hearing...
...Appointed a new head of the Farm Credit Administration. Accepting "with sincere regret" the resignation of FCA Governor William I. Myers, who is returning to Cornell to teach, Franklin Roosevelt promoted Deputy Governor Forrest Frank Hill to his job. "Frosty" Hill has been with FCA since it was created in 1933 to merge a handful of uncoordinated agencies and save the U. S. farmer from foreclosure. As a boy he worked on a wheat farm in Saskatchewan, got a first-hand knowledge of soil problems. A shrewd banker with an incredible memory for figures, Governor Hill still talks like...