Word: lyme
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Florence Griswold, 86, "foster-mother" of the American Barbizon School of Painters; after long illness; in Old Lyme, Conn. "Miss Florence's" great grandfather and grandfather were both governors of Connecticut; her father was Captain Robert Griswold of the London packet Ocean Queen. Boarders in her stately, elm-shaded house in the early 1900s included Chauncey Ryder, Henry W. Ranger, Childe Hassam, Clark Voorhees, other U. S. Impressionists. Last year when she became too poor to keep her house, former New York State Supreme Court Justice Robert McCurdy Marsh bought it, gave her a free lease for life...
...change all that. Tobacco Road began to pay. Soon Anthony Brown, who had come from balmy Hollywood to direct the play, had saved enough to buy an overcoat. Henry Hull, then playing the part of filthy Jeeter Lester, found he could begin to pay the expenses of his Old Lyme, Conn, estate. After the first year's run, profits were $84,000. When Tobacco Road's second birthday rolled around, Producers Sam Grisman, Jack Kirkland and Anthony Brown threw caution to the winds, blew in $10.50 for new costumes for all the players...
...Lyme, Conn., the National Guard had to stop its war games when neighbors complained the sham battles made too much noise...
...Lyme, Conn, the will of Actor William Gillette (Sherlock Holmes) was probated. Chief request was that the executors find an appreciative buyer for his castle and complete threemile, narrow-gauge railroad at Hadlyme. Wrote he: "I would consider it more than unfortunate for me should I find myself doomed after death to a continued consciousness of the behavior of mankind on this planet-to discover that the stone walls and towers and fireplaces of my home, founded at every point on the solid rock of Connecticut; that my railway line with its bridges, trestles, tunnels through solid rock . . . that...