Word: whitford
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...play is primarily a picture of an ill-natured old woman, and for many months it was held by the Theatre Guild as a vehicle for their favorite actress, Helen Westley. Margaret Wycherly plays the part in the present production with quavers and acidity admirably suited to the crone. Whitford Kane is somewhat less successful as the old taxidermist, who is a greybeard Pollyanna. There is also a girl who is deceived by a strutting young musician and a serenely suffering mother. All these combine in what might have been an excellent study of mediocre domesticity had it not been...
...James Whitford Bashford; pastor, educator, author, M. E. Bishop of Peking, China. Born Fayette, Wis., 1849-died 1919. President of Ohio Wesleyan College, 1889-1904. Characterized by his students as "What-can-I-do-for-you" Bashford; by the Chinese, among whom he numbered many distinguished friends, as "the man with the shining face." A tremendous worker; carried a case of books with him when travelling and wrote many books himself. Among other strong views he held women should be admitted to the ministry...
...Gould, of Greenfield, III.; R. C. Hackett 1G., of Livermore, Ky.; P. L. Julian 2G., of Greencastle, Ind.; D. E. Lee of Rochester; N. Y. M. F. Pratt 1G, of Winter Hill; R. L. Steinberger 2G., of Canton, Ohio W. E. Vaugban 1G, of Newton Centre; D. E. Whitford 1G., of Phonix, R. L.; E. R. Alexander, of Montreal, Quebec; J. P. Bethel, of Montreal, Quebec; M. M. Crow, of Imperial, Pa.; Hymon Diamond, of Pittsburgh, Pa.; R. H. James, of Wilmington, N. C.; T. L. Jennings, of Moscow, Ida.; S. G. Macomber, of Princeton, N. J.; G. A. Martell...
...Lampoon has elected ten new members to its board. For the writing and drawing departments the new men are Phillip Nelson Schuyler '21 of Portland, Maine: James Marshall Plumer '21 of Brookline: Philip Whitford Kirkland Sweet '22 of Sargentville, Maine; Charles Pelham Greenough Fuller '23 of Newtownville; John Churchill Newcomb '23 of Lousiville, Kentucky: and Warwick Potter Scott '23 of Landsdowne, Pennsyivanina; and for the business end three were elected, Robert Douglas Coe '23 of New York City; John Gardiner Flint '23 of Boston; and Morris Duane '23 of Philadelphia...