Word: drama
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...drama will soon have its first official backing at Harvard since Professor George Pierce Baker left the College to teach at Yale in 1925. A Committee of faculty members formed last night will begin to raise money next week for the Theodore Spencer Memorial Fund, whose purpose is to endow a lectureship on the drama...
...wife, blonde, blue-eyed Eva, Herb Philbrick was a good husband & father (they have four little daughters). To his employers, a Boston motion-picture theater chain, he was a go-getting assistant advertising manager, who knew how to turn out cute promotion pieces and ingratiate himself at newspaper drama desks. To his pastor, the Rev. Ralph Bertholf, he was a pillar of suburban Wakefield's First Baptist Church, a well-favored Sunday-school teacher and editor of the church's paper, Tall Spire. To everyone else, he was a friendly guy who looked much younger than his years...
This Year, Israel (Sun. 4:30 p.m., CBS). Passover drama, with Paul Muni...
...those for whom the plot's the thing, for whom heartbeats are more important than dance steps, South Pacific will seem-as it may well be-a perfect union of film and footlights. For others, a musical play will have to rank a bit higher as drama than South Pacific, if the loss in dancing, décor, and musicomedy's festal airs is not to smack of larceny...
...play, too; they called it the best of Dallas' eight-play season. One reviewer ranked it as high as anything ever done at the playhouse, where Tennessee Williams' Summer and Smoke had its first showing. Already slated for this summer's Edinburgh Festival of Music and Drama with Flora Robson starred, it was thought to be a cinch for Broadway production. Though the authors refused to share this prediction, Collaborator Evans sounded cautiously optimistic: "We've tasted blood. We don't want to do anything ever again except write for the theater...