Word: raiser
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dramatic expression is inevitably more artificial than ordinary expression. By exaggerating this artificiality, Alfred de Musset's "A Door Must Be Open or Shut" makes an excellent curtain-raiser; it makes the James play appear less artificial in contrast. The French play depends for its effect largely on polish, and Thomas Gad and Evelyn Mersen have achieved the perfection that makes this dramatization of an aphorism humorous and striking...
...when Tamblyn & Brown were getting nowhere with a drive for Williams College, they happened to print a part of the College song, The Mountains, in a pamphlet. Checks fluttered in. When Horace Dutton Taft tried to raise $2,000,000 for the Taft school the drive failed. A fund-raiser's solution: Mr. Taft deeded the property over to his trustees and the goal was reached...
Unrecognized patron saint of planned philanthropy is Benjamin Franklin, who in 1751 undertook to gather money for the Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia. Said Organizer Franklin, summing up what still may be the best fund-raiser creed: "I do not remember any of my . . . maneuvers . . . wherein, after thinking of it, I more easily excused myself for having made some use of cunning...
With opening night only a week away, the Harvard Dramatic Club-Radcliffe Idler world premiere production of "Owen Wingrave," by Henry James, is entering final rehearsals for performances next Thursday, Friday and Saturday at Brattle Hall. Curtain raiser for the program is Alfred De Musset's "A Door Must Be Open or Shut...
...curtain raiser for this double attack was played over the Philippines. For seven days Admiral William F. ("Bull") Halsey's Third Fleet flyers ranged over thousands of square miles of the central and southern Philippines, knocked out 501 of the Jap's fast-disappearing planes-more even than the 420 wiped out in the Battle of the Philippine Sea last June. As spice for this performance, Halsey's flyers damaged or sank all of 173 ships ranging from big cargo carriers to light coastal vessels. Then the double blow struck...