Word: parkers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dorothy Parker, noted as a wit, verse-writer (Sunset Gun) and movie-scripter (The Fan), seemed to be headed toward Broadway again. It had been 25 years since her first and only Manhattan production-Close Harmony, a flop co-authored by Elmer Rice. In Dallas last week, jittery but still hopeful, she sat with Collaborator Ross Evans in Margo Jones's Theater '49, awaiting the local verdict on their new play, The Coast of Illyria...
...meeting, which was called by the Harvard chapter of the National Lawyer's Guild, was held at the Parker House. Such organizations as the Graduate Council, the Young Progressives, and the Christian Fellowship were among the groups attending...
...Committee on Scholarships announced last night the award of the Richard Perkins Parker Scholarship to Stephen Myron Schwebel '50, of Lowell House and Brooklyn, N.Y., The scholarship is a memorial to Richard Perkins Parker '21 and is awarded to a "Junior of high character and ability...
Elsewhere on the class A courts, Adams bounced to an easy 50-38 win over Dunster, coming up from a halftime score of 20-21. Largely responsible for the Gold Coasters' victory were high scorer Frank Holt, with 14 points, and Bob Parker and Roger Davis with 13 tallies each...
Quartet ends with The Colonel's Lady, an exhilarating snifter of Maugham's best vintage. It describes the troubles of a Blimpish colonel and his mousy, neglected wife whose little volume of passionate love poems suddenly becomes a nationwide bestseller. Cecil Parker and Nora Swinburne are just right in the leading roles, and the camera makes some telling, acidulous comments on club-chair Berties and Mayfair literati...