Word: globe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York World's Fair, as a part of a Merrie England folderol, the Bard of Avon is played inside a replica of the famed Elizabethan Globe Theatre. Thanks to Director Margaret Webster, the Old Globe's Shakespeare is neither skittish nor stodgy. Four Shakespeare comedies-As You Like It, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Comedy of Errors, The Taming of the Shrew-have been shrunk to a quarter their usual size, ironed without starch. Punched into shape as unceremoniously as a vaudeville act, Shakespeare's one-acters-runoff seven times a day-perk...
Only one falls flat. That nobody can do anything with the puerile plot of The Comedy of Errors was shown this season when Rodgers & Hart found it the snag in their otherwise delightful The Boys from Syracuse. But the Old Globe's The Taming of the Shrew picks up enormously by having Kate take the count within 45 minutes, becomes, indeed, an exuberant comic-strip courtship. Best of the four productions is A Midsummer Night's Dream...
...sealed in the talk with the newspaper friend turned priest-Rev. Edward Patrick Dowling, S. J., 40, associate editor of the Queen's Work in St. Louis, distant kinsman of Actor Eddie Dowling. Jesuit Dowling, once a crack baseballer, called "Puggy" by St. Louis schoolmates, worked on the Globe-Democrat before he became a priest in 1931, is today a member of Broun's Newspaper Guild...
Fellows who received their certificates yesterday: Edwin A. Lahey of the Chicago Daily News; Frank S. Hopkins of the Baltimore Sun; Osburn Zuber, editorial writer for the Birmingham News; Irving Dillard, editorial writer on the St. Louis Post-Dispatch; Louis M. Lyons of the Boston Globe; John McL. Clark, editorial writer on the Washington Post; Hilary H. Lyons, Jr., chief editorial writer for the Mobile Press Register; and E. Wesley Fuller, Jr. '33 of the Boston Herald...
...College recently appointed Louis M. Lyons assistant curator of the Nieman Collection of Contemporary Journalism. He will combine his regular duties on the Boston Globe with his work with Nieman Fellows next year...