Word: shattuck
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hour-long trip in a rattletrap bus, Rocky finally caught up with the official welcome from an incongruous dance band (hired by the sea-captain husband of the movies' retired Marion Davies), from a corporal's guard of Cal-Rock boosters, and from National Committeeman Edward Shattuck, who wore a silver and blue pin with the word "Nixon" etched...
...Occasion: a performance of selections from French Composer Jean-Philippe Rameau's comic ballet Platée (1745), with French Tenor Michel Sénéchal in his U.S. debut. Place: the 60-seat, century-old Varieties Theater in the Brookline mansion of Boston Socialite Mrs. George Shattuck, one of the few surviving private stages...
...pale green Varieties, 25 ft. by 20 ft., was originally built by Samuel Cabot, Mrs. Shattuck's great-grandfather, as a place for staging amateur theatricals. The first important performance, a family diarist noted, took place on a "clear moonlight evening" on the day after Christmas in 1855, and was marred only by the fact that "some of our actors were delayed by a faithless hackman." Generation after generation, family actors staged everything from Henry IV and She Stoops to Conquer to melodramas such as The Brigands of Lodi and The Dead Shot. Famed Actress Fanny Kemble appeared...
Died. Louis Shattuck Gates, 77, onetime (1930-47) president and board chairman (since 1947) of Phelps Dodge, which he helped make into one of copper's Big Three; in Manhattan...
...facilities will stand at the corner of Huntington Ave. and Shattuck St. in Boston. They will replace two remodeled hospital buildings and "rented and borrowed" space now adjacent to the construction site...