Word: deeter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Presented at Jasper Deeter's cooperative, experimental Hedgerow Theatre outside Philadelphia was Behold Your God, two-part "economic satire" by Richard Houghton Hepburn, 24, lanky brother of Cinemactress Katharine Hepburn. Behold Your God was the outcome of an agreement between Richard Hepburn and his father, Dr. Thomas N. Hepburn of Hartford, Conn., whereby Richard was to be "let alone" for three years to try his hand at drama. Professional critics found Behold Your God "dull." "extravagant/ "blurred," "inarticulate," "esoteric, ""luci< as a timetable...
...tree-shaded Marion, Ind., onetime stamping-ground of the Ku Klux Klan, three Negro boys last week were hurried to the Grant County gaol. One of them, Thomas Shipp, 18, confessed he had dragged Claude Deeter, 23, from an automobile parked in Marion's outskirts, shot him to death. Shipp's companion, Abe Smith, admitted attacking Deeter's fiancee, Mary Ball...
...crowd gathered about the gaol, increased during the day to more than 1,000. About 9 p. m. Hoot Ball, father of Mary, called to confer with Sheriff Jacob Campbell. A weak & sickly man, he emerged to find the crowd augmented by a group of men from Fairmount, Ind., Deeter's home. They pressed in on him, knocked him down...
Resigned. Mrs. Jane Deeter Rippin. since 1919 National Director of the Girl Scouts Inc.; to devote her time to "writing her observations and reflections on girls and women." Said she: "I shall always be a Girl Scout...