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Word: wellesely (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Broadway heard last summer that two up-&-coming young men were starting a new repertory company, play-goers waited with lively interest but natural distrust to see what Orson Welles, 22, and John Houseman, 35, would do with their Mercury Theatre. One bedrock essential that Welles & Houseman apparently lacked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Marvelous Boy | 5/9/1938 | See Source »

First guess was at least partly wrong. The Scott Resolution did not force the State Department to lay down its face cards-which it may, nonetheless, do in the near future. On the other hand, something entirely different prompted Franklin Roosevelt to pick up some of his. Acting Secretary of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Scott Resolution | 5/2/1938 | See Source »

This year's show, So Proudly We Hail, had Humorist Benchley's son, Nathaniel, for one of its authors, Assistant Secretary of State Sumner Welles's son, Benjamin, for another, Producer Freedley's son, Vinton Jr., for female lead. A musical free-for-all, So Proudly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Proof of the Pudding | 4/18/1938 | See Source »

The book is by Nathaniel Benchley, '38, Benjamin Welles, '38, and John Graham, '38. They have pieced together a tale of international intrigue including everyone from Mussolini to Princess Elizabeth. The plot concerns a group of American business men, who, tired of being mere economic royalists, decide to go in...

Author: By E. C. B., | Title: The Playgoer | 3/30/1938 | See Source »

The music of the songs is the work of Ben Welles, Stanley Miller, '38, and Alan Lerner, '39. The latter two also had a hand in writing the words for them, and were assisted by David Lannon '39. The words do not scintillate, nor will the tunes be indefinitely revived...

Author: By E. C. B., | Title: The Playgoer | 3/30/1938 | See Source »

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