Word: lyceums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since the year 1810, various student attempts to get themselves into print had gone by the names of Lyceum, Register, Collegian, Harvardiana, Harvard Magazine, and, in 1866, the Advocate. The second group of editors to achieve a permanent success settled on the name of the College color...
...handwriting, learned about the theatre as advance agent for a minstrel show. But unlike his brilliant brother Charles (lost on the Lusitania in 1915), who organized huge nationwide theatre combines, he limited his productions to Manhattan and, after 1885, chiefly to one theatre. In the roster of his great Lyceum Theatre Stock Company (with David Belasco as stage manager) were E. H. Sothern, Julia Marlowe, Richard Mansfield, Maude Adams, Henry Miller, many another illustrious name. Though Uncle Dan retired from active producing in 1911, he remained a shrewd, vigorous Broadway counselor and leader, on first nights descending from his penthouse...