Word: ushering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...clashing red clothes, Grooms is as gently ingenuous as his art. After high school in Nashville (where he was voted "Most Witty"), he successively studied at the Art Institute of Chicago, at the New School, and with Hans Hofmann in Provincetown. Fascinated with things theatrical, he also became head usher at the old Roxy in New York. "Part of art is showmanship," he says. He directed his own "happenings" and acted in them in clown's whiteface and ice-cream pants. Action painting was a religious faith to him for a while; once, before an audience, he performed...
Three Fairs in One. Smith confesses to have been stage-struck ever since he saw Carmen at age ten in Buffalo, but he took a roundabout route to Broadway. He studied architecture at Penn State, did a stint as a Roxy usher ("The stage design was hideous"), tried selling mackinaws in Gimbels' basement. He was also a member of the ménage in the Brooklyn Heights town house shared by W. H. Auden, Benjamin Britten, Carson McCullers and Richard Wright. Smith was the dishwasher and furnace man. He also thought he was a painter. His first show...
...announces that General Concaro must park his car in his garage and stop using it as a storeroom, Concaro cries: "I protest!" The argument grows in volume; the general draws an automatic pistol. One court official drops, shot twice in the stomach and once in the leg. The court usher charges boldly, then sprawls dead with three methodically aimed bullets in him. The judge intervenes, only to slump in his robes, critically wounded by four slugs. Finally a policeman slips behind the general, cuts him down with a burst from his submachine gun. Dying on the courtroom floor, General Concaro...
Swimming, Varsity; Harvard-Radcliffe Combined Charities; Lowell House Committee, Treasurer; Harvard Freshman Council, Chairman; United States Youth Council, National Secretary; World University Service, 1963-4 National Executive Committee; HCUA; Crimson Key; Varsity Club; Junior Usher; Dean's List...
Varsity Football; Glee Club; Champion, Intramural Lightheavyweight Boxing; Adams House Football Coach and Athletic Secretary; Junior Usher; Association of African and Afro-American Students; Intramural Basketball and Track...