Word: tappan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Hallie Flanagan Davis, 78, director from 1935 to 1939 of the New Deal's WPA Theater Project; of Parkinson's disease; in Old Tappan, N.J. Unemployment was skyrocketing in the Depression-bound U.S. theater when Mrs. Davis, who founded Vassar College's Experimental Theater, was asked to help the show go on. She established theaters in 40 cities across the country, opened up jobs for some 13,000 actors, directors and theater workers, and helped introduce such playwrights as Christopher Marlowe, Maxwell Anderson and Clifford Odets...
NYACK, N.Y., Tappan Zee Playhouse...
...Benjamin Tappan, Ohio Democrat, who in 1844 smuggled to the old New York Evening Post a copy of the treaty of annexation with the Republic of Texas while the document was still considered confidential...
...PUSSYCAT, Kennebunkport Playhouse, Kennebunkport, Me.; Star Playhouse, Ephrata, Pa.; Green Hills Theater, Reading, Pa.; Tappan Zee Playhouse, Nyack...
...enlightened governmental legislation within the next generation, I shall never again hear statements similar to the one made by a four-year-old neighborhood child to the effect that she is glad not to be colored because "Negroes aren't people." FREDI HÜBLER Old Tappan...