Word: parkers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first concert, on Thursday evening, October 25, is dedicated to the memory of H. t. Parker, late dramatic critic of the Boston Transcript. The program consist of compositions which Mr. Parker had suggested for a chamber music concert: Mozart's Oboe Quintet, k. 370; John Alden Carpenter's String Quartet, and Brahm's Quartet in C Minor...
...three young hopefuls most mentioned as candidates for next year's Davis Cup team are red-haired Donald Budge, Junior Champion Gene Mako, and Coach Mercer Beasley's prize protege Frank Parker. Yet last week not one of them lasted beyond the quarterfinals...
...chances of Berkeley Bell, once No. 9 but now No. 18 in national ranking, who has won nine tournaments this season; of youthful oldtimers like John Van Ryn, Wilmer Allison, Bryan Grant and Clifford Sutter: of the latest batch of promising youngsters like Donald Budge, Gene Mako and Frank Parker...
...Doren has tried to include big, smart or portentous figures of the last 20 years. Some of those present: Sherwood Anderson, James Branch Cabell, Willa Gather, John Dos Passos, Theodore Dreiser, T. S. Eliot, William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Ring Lardner, Sinclair Lewis, H. L. Mencken, Dorothy Parker, Evelyn Scott, Edith Wharton, Glenway Wescott, Thornton Wilder. Readers may raise puzzled eyebrows at lesser-known names: Carl Becker, Albert Halper, Eleanor Rowland Wembridge. Nowhere to be found are such names as Upton Sinclair, Conrad Allen, Hervey Allen, Louis Bromfield, Walter Lippmann, T. S. Stribling. Looking back on his collection...
...villain of monstrous subtlety and venom. The Jones' sets, sparkling with Venetian color, were amazingly well handled throughout a one-intermission performance on a stage equipped only with a hand curtain. An audience of 750 which included Cinemagnate Jesse Lasky, Producer Max Gordon. Mr. & Mrs. Alan Campbell (Dorothy Parker), cheered itself hoarse after the performance and then adjourned, like most of the cast, to the barroom of the Teller House next door, to which President Grant once made his way over a pavement of silver bricks...