Word: wister
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Owen Wister, 78, prolific author, grandson of the late great Victorian Actress Fanny Kemble, friend and biographer of Roosevelt I; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in North Kingstown, R. I. His most famed novel The Virginian (1902), was the product of a western rest cure, sold 1,500,000 copies, gave birth to the phrase: "When you call me that, smile...
HIGH TENSION-William Wister Haines -Little, Brown...
...trials for 50 years, then in 1844 launched its first play, has offered shows every year since except during the War, is the oldest college dramatic society in the U. S. Former members include Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Harvard '61, Senator Henry Cabot Lodge '71, Novelist Owen Wister '82, Banker John Pierpont Morgan '89, Radical John Reed '10, Humorist Robert Benchley '12, Producer Vinton Freedley '14, Playwright Robert Sherwood...
...Hasty Pudding display the first club operetta. "Dido and Aeneas," written by Owen Wister and presented in 1882, is represented by the original playbill and a photograph of the cast. The club gave its first stage production in 1845, a burlesque called "Bombastes Furioso," held in a member's room in Hollis Hall. Many Hasty Pudding show books are displayed, including the "Famous Fakirs" of 1908, its first modern musical comedy, and "The Sphinx," the only show staged professionally after its Harvard appearance...
...Warner Brothers have announced no Davies pictures on their schedule for next year. Cosmopolitan Productions has announced no new affiliation. Another Dawn (Warner). First love of dreamy Julia Ashton (Kay Francis) is an aviator who disappears at sea. That loss she mourns until she meets and marries Colonel John Wister (Ian Hunter), who takes her back to his small British Army post in central Arabia. Second in command is Captain Denny Roark (Errol Flynn) for whom, as cinemaddicts will easily anticipate, she burns at first sight. Only satisfactory way out is for the noble colonel to fly away...