Word: thereness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Happy Papa. Cribmaking reached a peak in the 17th and 18th centuries, and there were no inhibitions against anachronism; in one Augsburg crib the Annunciation takes place in a miniature Louis XVI drawing room with the Angel Gabriel dressed like a court page.
Eight years ago, Actor Bosley was a restaurant doorman. Born in Chicago, he started out there after discharge from the Navy in 1946, worked on local radio shows, did summer stock. Moving on to New York four years later, he picked up small acting jobs off Broadway and on TV...
"I have invited you here to see a very good show," said Perky. "I saw the original when I was a sublieutenant in His Majesty's army in 1917, and I can tell you that this production is even better." With that, he seated himself at a piano and...
During intermission, the bearded Canadian almost drowned the show when he served so many drinks to cast and audience that the entire second act played as if the hall were built around an imperial quart. Afterward, Perky offered a farewell round of cheer, announced that he had seen the production...
Once interested, Harvardman ('17) Atkinson fixed his sights on an aisle seat in New York. Getting there involved five years of apprenticeship on two Massachusetts papers and a brief digression as English instructor at Dartmouth. By 1922 he was within strolling distance of Broadway, editing the Sunday book section...