Word: tempests
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harvard Theater Workshop will give Shakespeare's "The Tempest" as its last production using the present personnel in the Brattle Hall Theater beginning May 4. Next fall the group will open in a series of repertory productions on a full professional basis...
Readings for "The Tempest" will begin in the Phillips Brooks House chapel from 2:30 to 5:00 p.m. and from 7:30 to 10:00 p.m. today. All interested persons are asked to try out at this time for both principal and minor parts. Casting is expected to be completed by the end of the week...
Died. Charles Stewart Henry Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 7th Marquess of Londonderry, 70, British coal tycoon and onetime Secretary of State for Air (1931-35) who said in 1938: "Close cooperation with Germany will bring about lasting peace . . ." (he visited Hitler, Göring, Ribbentrop) ; of a head injury suffered four years ago in a glider crash; in Newtownards, Northern Ireland. A longtime supporter of Chamberlain until after Munich, Londonderry later campaigned for increased British air strength, won praise for having helped develop Britain's Spitfire and Hurricane fighter planes...
...teapot tempest? One nervous Delhi churchman said: "It is a symptom of a subtle attempt to put Mahatma Gandhi-for whom, mind you, I have the greatest respect-on the same pedestal as our Lord Jesus Christ...
...whose History of Rome Hanks stirred up violent opinions in 1944. "Naturally I hope my new book, Nora Beckham, will have as much success as my first," he confided to Reporter Jim Goodsell for the Portland Oregonian. "But I won't mind if it creates less of a tempest. It was a little unnerving to be compared, all in one week, with Thomas Wolfe, James Joyce, Marcel Proust, and Judas Iscariot...