Word: petter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ranging in rank from Ensigns to Lieutenant Commanders, 301 naval officers received Certificates of Completion at the Supply School graduation exercises, held in Petter Auditorium on Wednesday...
...Durbin, from girlish charm to full-blown love interest. This installment concerns Miss Durbin's fruitless infatuation for a gay, non-marrying Flying Tiger (Joseph Gotten), and it has the profitable merit of leaving Deanna still single, her fans still breathlessly awaiting their singing star's cinemarriage. Petter managed than usual are Miss Durbin's opportunities to break into song. As noon-hour entertainment for workers in an effectively photographed West Coast airplane factory, she sings the Kashmiri Song, the Seguidilla from Carmen, and the topical, not very catchy Say a Pray'r for the Boys...
...except two arched trellises, pushed onto the stage as director Edwin Burr Pettet said, "for those who think they have to have scenery." A few chairs, two tables, a couple of ladders and a board are the frugal furnishings, images created in the minds of the audience by Mr. Petter's homely descriptions and the pantomime of the rest of the cast build the streets, houses, gardens and churches of Grover's Corners more effectively than could an M. G. M. location...