Word: grainger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Headed by Paul Killiam, Jr. '37, who will play the lead part of Bob Brown, the Crimson representatives include David Parry '38, as Townely Town; Valentine J. Chapman 1G, as Wallace Grainger; Phillip Baker Baker '39, as Bruce Keen; and Theodore Strecter '36, who will play the part for Whitman...
...list of characters is headed by Paul Killiam '37, playing the part of Bob Brown, and David Parry '38, who will be Townley Town. Other members of the Dramatic Club in the cast include Valentine Chapman as Wallace Grainger, Philip Baker '39, as Bruce Keen, and Theodore Strecter '36 as Whitman...
Born just before the Civil War, James Buchanan Brady grew up near New York's Bowery to become the most arresting figure in the bizarre night life of Broadway at the turn of the century. The picture, handsomely produced by Edmund Grainger, sketches his boyhood and then concentrates on his extraordinary career as gourmet, patron of the stage, stockmarket impresario and teetotaler that followed his overnight switch from New York Central "baggage smasher" to major-league railroad supply salesman. Since Brady's life is a legend, Playwright Preston Sturges, who did the screen play from Parker Morell...
...Dark got him a few small parts in Hollywood in 1932. His performance as a bibulous millionaire in Sadie McKee last year was a cinema classic. Producer B. P. Schulberg currently pays him $ 1,000 a week on a yearly basis, lends him to outside producers like Edmund Grainger who give him much more for short engagements...
Pianist Percy Grainger has likened the texture of Ellington's music to that of British Composer Frederick Delius. Scholarly musicians are looking forward to a Duke Ellington review which is scheduled for New York next season. Such lofty recognition has injected no jarring, self-conscious note into Ellington's performances. Ellington and his players cling to the Negro dialect. Hot obligates are still "riffs" to them. Dapper Sonny Greer, probably the world's greatest drummer, still shouts "Send me, man!" when he is about to launch a percussive volley. Ellington's own soft-spoken orders...