Word: parkers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lashing Harvard for the appointment of Granville Hicks, avowed Communist, to its tutorial staff, S. Scott P. Squyres of Oklahoma City, National commander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, freely expressed his views on the situation at a breakfast given in the Parker House to members of the V.F.W...
...rocky road to Broadway. The play, Hemingway's first,* was finished three months ago. Originally Producer Jed Harris was slated to produce it "after revisions by the author." "Revisions" caused an impasse, and suddenly Harris bowed himself out of the picture. Next came news that Austin Parker, former husband of Actress Miriam Hopkins, was doing the play, had offered Cinemactor Brian Aherne the lead...
...this point Hemingway, resuming his job of war correspondent, sailed for Spain. Two days later, with his $1,000 option check in the mail, Parker died. Because no contracts had actually been executed, Parker's heirs had no lien on the script, and it started on its travels all over again. With Hemingway's representative, Captain Rollin Dart-who had met Hemingway in Spain while an officer in the Loyalist Army-in charge of the script, it was wanted by the Theatre Guild, rumored sold to Gilbert Miller, to Jock Whitney. No rumor held water long. Last week...
Thereupon Henry's 20-year-old sister telephoned Mrs. Roosevelt and packed the boys off to New York under the watchful eye of the Distler chauffeur, James Parker. By the time they had reached Pennsylvania Station, crowds of news photographers were waiting for them. So was the Roosevelt chauffeur, James Kehoe. He rushed up and threw his arms around the boys to shield them from the photographers. Chauffeur Parker, misunderstanding the stranger's purpose, took a swing at Chauffeur Kehoe. While the two guardians traded punches and police leaped into the fray, Dirck Roosevelt became hysterical and Henry...
Storm in a Teacup (Sara Allgood, Vivien Leigh, Cecil Parker, Rex Harrison; TIME, April...