Word: hampdens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Love (by Edward Caulfield; produced by Arthur Beckhard & Victor Hugo-Vidal) concerns a lady scientist and a well-known actor (Lotus Robb and Walter Hampden) who meet through a marriage bureau, hide their identities, spend a trial fortnight in Connecticut...
Former members of HDC include a theatrical luminaries as Robert Benchley'12, Walter Hampden, and John Mr. Brown...
...Walter Hampden stopped the show at a Manhattan revival of The Patriots-in order to resist an invasion of paper planes from the moppetous matinee audience. The lean-faced romantic actor, a grandfather, managed ultimately to finish the performance by threatening not to. "After all," he observed, "The Patriots is an adult play...
...this is not enough. What Australia needs more than potentials is the ready-made stuff. She could do with the two Spitfire squadrons, with the Wellington and Hampden bomber squadrons, all Australian manned, that are squatting in England. She could do more with the fleets of bombers and fighters, the heavy equipment, the light and medium tanks, trucks, and millions of tons of fuel which America could supply...
From 1889 to 1894 the games were held in Springfield, because Boston and New Haven complained about the damage wreaked on them in former years, and these two towns were annually depopulated for one weekend late in November. The seating situation was stringent, for Hampden Park held a bare 9,000 paying customers and the Springfield City Council kept more than 2,000 for the inhabitants of their own city...