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...Wallace Woodworth's men seemed to have the edge in applause for such numbers as "Spanish Ladies" and "Casey Jones," but the Blue returned in force with "Noah Webster" and "Old Tom Wilson...
...Webster: "Jew ... any person of the Hebrew race or whose religion is Judaism...
Repertory 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...
Shrewdly cut and staged by Margaret Webster and handsomely mounted by David Ffolkes, last week's Henry held up as storytelling and scored as pageantry. But it took on no added drama with Walter Hampden a stately cipher in Wolsey's role, Victor Jory messing...
...world generally considered a typical American. He appeared reticent, formal, gentle, oldfashioned, a man of controlled emotions and clear purposes. He was born in 1877 in Highgate Center (pop. 500 at the time), among the green, hard hills of Vermont. He read the Bible, Lincoln, Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, was fullback at the University of Vermont. Later, he settled down to the life of a small-town lawyer. In 1931, he was elected to the Senate, where, after 1939, he labored long & hard for aid to the Allies...