Word: warde
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...skits and clog dances, miming Chinese laundrymen, Swedish servant girls and balloon-pants Dutch comics, the team clicked in Boston and New York. Harrigan discovered that he could write, and found a timely subject, the clash of the immigrant races amid settings of squalid realism. Haunting the "Bloody Sixth" Ward with notebook in hand, Harrigan transplanted New York lowlife to the stage to the immense delight of such real-life prototypes in the peanut gallery as One-Lung Pete, Slobbery Jack and Jake the Oyster. Together with his father-in-law David Braham, Harrigan also turned out over 200 songs...
...immigrant groups who were blackballed from the snobbish regular militia. The hero, Dan Mulligan played by Harrigan, had two mottoes: "Erin Go Bragh" and "E Pluribus Unum " He was so Irish that he thought Lafayette's real name was Lafferty, and so American that he razed a Sixth Ward barber pole because it was painted in the colors of a German flag instead of the Stars and Stripes. For the rest, Harrigan and Hart relied on "knockdown and slapbang...
...both colder and angrier than it was on the stage. As a Broadway hit, it was a protesting shocker about an intelligent but morally weak man, who summons enough resolution to try suicide, only to revive in the white hell of a big-city hospital's psychiatric ward. Ably directed by Co-Star José Ferrer, the film protests not only against municipal snake pits but also against another unattractive institution-marriage between crutchlike women and emotionally crippled...
Died. Arch Ward, 58, sports editor of the Chicago Tribune, famed for his catch-all column "Wake of the News," personal promoter of the Golden Gloves Boxing Tournament and originator of the annual All-Star Baseball Game (in 1933) and Football Game (in 1934); of coronary thrombosis; in Chicago...
Joseph C. Kracht, 50, was named vice president and retail manager of Montgomery Ward (starting Aug. 1), the company's first retail veep in three years. A native New Yorker and Columbia University graduate, Kracht spent 13 years with Ward, then quit in 1950 to become a vice president at W. R. Grace & Co. and then to the same spot with Fedway Stores, a subsidiary of Federated Department Stores...