Word: rowland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last summer for $25,000 a year National Broadcasting Co. hired Yale's former President, James Rowland Angell, as educational adviser. Last week Columbia Broadcasting System, not to be outdone, gathered a volunteer Adult Education Board of 13* around a table to decide what kind of education it should broadcast. After an all-day session the Board marched out to announce Columbia would withdraw some precious evening time from sale, would shortly produce: 1) a series of half-hour discussions between a teacher and a group of salty personalities (as individual and witty as Charlie McCarthy, if possible...
Shoemakers' plots are mightily involved even though the play has been cut to about half its length. One thread of plot entangles Rowland Lacy (Joseph Gotten) who, instead of going to war in France, disguises himself as a journeyman in order to woo his lady. Other plotters are Vincent Price and Edith Barrett, whose contributions to the high cockalorum are good, but occasionally strained. The real heroes are the shoemakers themselves, and the best of these jackanapes in droopy drawers and flapping codpieces is Hiram Sherman. His finegrained playing of low comedy won him a first-night ovation...
Three Waltzes (adapted by Clare Kummer & Rowland Leigh from a play by Paul Knepler and Armin Robinson; produced by Messrs. Shubert). Between old-fashioned operetta and newfangled musi-comedy is more than a gulf of years. Nevertheless light opera still goes on, for even in Manhattan many a theatregoer would still rather swoon to a waltz than tap his restless feet to the beat of a topical song. For such oldsters-by-preference, the Shuberts' second Christmas present, Three Waltzes, was as good as a plum pudding ablaze with Napoleon brandy...
Married. Rose-Zell Rowland, 20, one-time Manhattan burlesque "Golden Girl" (her costume: gilt paint); to Baron Jean Empain, 35-year-old Belgian multimillionaire, principal owner of the Paris Metro (subway); in a Budapest nursing home, three days after she had presented the baron with a son. It was reported that had the child been a daughter, there would have been no marriage...
These are from the collections of Philip Hofer, of New York City; Mr. Charles B. Hayt, of Cambridge; Dr. Benjamin Rowland, Harvard; the University Museum, Philadelphia; and particularly the firm of Dikran Kelekian, as well as those of Kirkor Minassian, H. Kevorkian, and Parish-Watson, New York...