Word: tempester
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Elliott Roosevelt's conversation was getting in the papers again and making people unhappy, but the latest tempest was a baffler. In Warsaw, reporters fought to see him to check up on something he had been heard to say. They finally won an audience. Declared Elliott: he had positively not given an interview. He had just made a conversational remark. What it was all about: he had said that he "liked Poland very much...
...Manhattan last week greeted its first large-scale repertory theater since Eva Le Gallienne's famed enterprise folded in 1933. This time Miss Le Gallienne was again a leading spirit, but in partnership with Director Margaret Webster (Hamlet, Othello) and Producer Cheryl Craw ford (Porgy and Bess, The Tempest). It had taken the three of them two years to raise almost $300,000 from 144 stockholders (they resisted Hollywood) and to gather a permanent company, including Walter Hampden, Victor Jory, Ernest Truex and Actress Le Gallienne herself...
...black-striper, was landed by New York Salesman Gordon Pittman in a Cuttyhunk boat, at 9:30 one night with the moon shining on the Vineyard's clay cliffs 200 yards away. It gave Cuttyhunkers, who claim that their 636-acre isle is the scene of The Tempest,* another honor to talk about...
...Cuttyhunk's case: the island was discovered in 1602 by Englishman Bartholomew" Gosnold. Shakespeare wrote The Tempest in 1611. Both Shakespeare and Gosnold had the same patron: the Earl of Southampton. Cuttyhunkers insist that Shakespeare's account of the shipwreck isle tallied with Gosnold's description of Cuttyhunk. Most Shakespeare authorities think he wrote about Bermuda...
...certainly to be regretted, but it is nevertheless a fact. Our committees, which are so democratic that they are open to any and all who care to join, were formed for the purpose of giving voice to the opinion that the whole matter of Student Council reform is a tempest in a teapot, and to express the hope that the business be dropped as soon as possible. There must be more important news for the Crimson to report. Ormonde de Kay, Jr. '45, Committee to Investigate the Committee to Investigate the Student Council. John A. Shepardson '46. Committee to Exterminate...