Word: robes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...effort and money lavished upon it by courageous amateurs. It is the work of William Douglas Burden and William C. Chanler, a young Harvard combination. From boyhood Burden has known the forests of Canada. The cast was recruited from the Ojibwas of upper Ontario, with old Chief Yellow Robe of the Sioux, who three years ago inducted Chief White Eagle Coolidge into that tribe, and who this spring died a city death of pneumonia (TIME, April 21), Princess Spotted Elk of the Penobscots, and young Chief Long Lance of the Blackfoot tribe, author, boxer, wrestler and onetime West Pointer...
...Dear Love" has for its star Walter Woolf, gifted baritone, who was last seen here in the "Red Robe", a Shubert success that had an extended run on Broadway. Helen Gilltland, who played oposite Walter Woolf in the latter show is again with him, and George Bassell in also in one of the lead roles...
Died. Chauncey Tasinagi Kills-in-the-Bush Yellow Robe, 63, Sioux chief; in Rockefeller Institute Hospital, Manhat tan; of pneumonia. In 1927 he presided over the Sioux tribal initiation of Chief White Eagle Calvin Coolidge...
...veteran whose singing has won high praise in Paris, Italy, South America. He sang Faust in the Metropolitan's 200th performance of the Gounod opera. He was weak-voiced, uneven and unduly doddering as the aged philosopher. Transformed by Mephistopheles, stripped of his old-man's robe and shorn of beard and matted wig, he revealed unromantic jowls above a figure sadly heavy for his 38 years. Thereupon he proceeded with an impersonation of the love-struck cavalier which, if well-routined, had little to distinguish it from a dozen others...
...Stephen Sewall. The portrait of Maynard is by Kneller and is regarded as one of the finest paintings in the School's collection. Maynard, who served under Cromwell and Charles II, was a great legal scholar and edited the Year Books. The portrait represents him in his red robe as serjeant-at-law and the special head dress--the coif--of the serjeants...