Word: pemberton
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...instructor, took on a class of 50 beginners for a three-week course in everything from soft-boiled eggs to risotto. The $10 tuitions go to the American Theater Wing's war work. Among his pupils: wife Lynn Fontanne, Mrs. Lawrence Tibbett, Peggy Wood, Elsa Maxwell, Mrs. Brock Pemberton...
...murals by the theater's top scene designers-Jo Mielziner, Donald Oenslager, Raoul Pène du Bois, Gertrude Lawrence, Eddie Cantor, the dancing De Marcos, the Quiz Kids with Tallulah Bankhead as Quizmaster, are part of the endless floor show. The food is good, and Producer Brock Pemberton, Novelist Carl Van Vechten, Actor Sam Jaffe are among the busboys. And the whole thing is free...
...Brock Pemberton, Broadway producer, hoped aloud that critics would accept his plan to keep the theater alive in wartime. The plan: let producers tell critics when they are about to produce a show of no merit, and let the critics stay away and shut...
Glamour Preferred (by Florence Ryerson & Colin Clements, produced by Brock Pemberton ) is a Hollywood story which for a few moments is highly engaging, thanks to the acting of Robert Craven as an ostensibly silly Englishman. He plays a warming love scene, and brings down the house with a line which should be immensely discouraging to women who dress-to-please-the-men. (To his wife about to put on evening clothes: "You'd better nip along and sling into your kit!") But like Beverly Hills and Quiet, Please!, which preceded it to Broadway by a fortnight, Glamour Preferred...
...list of patronesses for the affair was Mrs. James Bryant Conant. Others included Mrs. Homer Albers of Brookline, Mrs. Stanley Cobb of Milton, Mrs. Grosvenor Calkins of Newton, Mrs. Harrison Lyman of Winchester, Mrs. Thomas W. Little of Belmont, Mrs. Arthur W. Reed of Belmont; Mrs. Frank A. Pemberton of Chestnut Hill and Mrs. Frank J. Ludwig of Brookline...