Word: guilds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Manhattan's Theater Guild began its 25th season last week with two new Broadway productions. They revealed that, at 25, the Guild is past its prime. Neither Ketti Frings's Mr. Sycamore nor Philip Barry's Without Love would probably have rated a bid to the exciting birthday parties of the Guild's youth, when whimsey and small talk were freezingly snubbed...
Democrats held eleven House seats, Republicans tied them by gaining two (one is still to be decided by absentee ballots). The Olson defeat left able, chunky Robert Walker Kenny, 41, prosperous Los Angeles lawyer, national president of the Lawyers Guild, as the top Democrat in the State. Popular Bob Kenny, only Democrat elected to an important State office, succeeds Earl Warren as Attorney General. Democrats look to him to lead their Party's resurgence...
...first time since infantile paralysis struck her in June 1941, Operatic Soprano Marjorie Lawrence appeared before an audience: 600 guests at a Metropolitan Opera Guild luncheon in Manhattan. She arrived at the Waldorf-Astoria's ballroom in a wheelchair, sang from a settee. Lily Pons fell victim to the singer's bogey, laryngitis, canceled a concert in Houston. Artemisa Elias Calles, black-eyed, 28-year-old daughter of Mexico's ex-President Plutarco Elias Calles, made her debut as a professional dancer in Manhattan, gave flamenco and Spanish dances in a floor show at the Hotel Pierre...
...clock Polly Guyda's Freshman eleven met and outmanouvered a visiting Andover squad and walked off with a 4-0 triumph. Garland scored twice and Rogers and Guild once apiece for the Yardlings...
...afternoon the Freshman booters will play the Andover eleven on the Business School Field. Led by newly-elected Captain Dave Ogden, the team will try for its third victory as against one defeat. In the forefront of the '46 battle line will be high-scorers Roger Lazarus, Bill Guild, and Bill Keller...