Word: hampdens
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Former University students David G. Lyon '32 and Ernest Hampden were driven back by the intense heat and flames as they tried to push into the living room in an attempt to rescue Gardner. They too turned in an alarm and then battled the blaze unsuccessfully with a hand extinguisher...
...Lyon and Hampden asserted last night that the flames were concentrated in the corner of the living room where Gardner had been sitting, and both agreed that an uncared-for cigarette had started the blaze...
...leading spirit, but in partnership with Director Margaret Webster (Hamlet, Othello) and Producer Cheryl Craw ford (Porgy and Bess, The Tempest). It had taken the three of them two years to raise almost $300,000 from 144 stockholders (they resisted Hollywood) and to gather a permanent company, including Walter Hampden, Victor Jory, Ernest Truex and Actress Le Gallienne herself...
Shrewdly cut and staged by Margaret Webster and handsomely mounted by David Ffolkes, last week's Henry held up as storytelling and scored as pageantry. But it took on no added drama with Walter Hampden a stately cipher in Wolsey's role, Victor Jory messing...
Cyrano de Bergerac (translated from the French of Edmond Rostand by Brian Hooker; produced by Jose Ferrer) drops in on each new generation-Walter Hampden accompanied it in the '20s-as a reminder that high romance once lived in the world, or at any rate in the theater. Brightly tricked out, Cyrano is always welcome, for it offers playgoers the satisfaction of witnessing a "classic" and at the same time reveling in shameless sentiment, noble gestures and high theatrical hokum...