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...theater's most famed dance teacher of the '205; in Manhattan. Once a ragtime pianist, he was 28 when he directed his first show (the Four Cohans in The Governor's Son). He looked like a banker, directed like a mule skinner. He helped the Shuberts, Klaw & Erlanger, and Florenz Ziegfeld pretty up their musicals; taught stage technique to such greats as Marilyn Miller, the Astaires, Eddie Cantor, Al Jolson; was thrice a millionaire, once a bankrupt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Sep. 14, 1942 | 9/14/1942 | See Source »

Last year Cornell students sent a dummy tank to the White House with the inscription: "Dear President Roosevelt-keep America out of war." The Harvard Crimson said: "[We are] frankly determined to have peace at any price." The Crimson's President Spencer Klaw and the Yale Daily News's Kingman Brewster Jr. declared: "Intervention seems to us a fantastic moral proposition." Campuses throughout the land echoed their theme...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Switch | 10/13/1941 | See Source »

...Alonzo Klaw, Mrs. William Pierce Brown, Mrs. Harry Alfred Holmlund, Mrs. John Franklin Crocker, Mrs. Charles Pratt Berger, Mrs. Helen Lacey, Mrs. Roy Lester James, Mrs. Francis Marion Simpson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gene Krupa To Play During Senior Spread in Lowell House, June 16th | 6/4/1941 | See Source »

Speakers at the meeting included Darr. Jesse Prosten of the United Packinghouse Workers (CIO), Father Hastings Smythe of the American Peace Mobilization, and Spencer Klaw...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HSU Will Picket Daily Here in Anti-War Move | 6/4/1941 | See Source »

...Nominating Committee, as named by Marvin, will include the following Seniors: Benjamin A. Barnes, Charles Glifix, Alan Gottlieb, David D. Henry, Henry Hornblower 2nd, Spencer A. Klaw, Joseph P. Lyford, and Homer D. Peabody...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Student Council Announces Its Nominations This Friday | 5/27/1941 | See Source »

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