Word: hill
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...deepest gratitude for the scathing denunciation by O. D. Hill (TIME, Oct. 27) of the loathsome slaughter of 17 whales by Warwick M. Tompkins and his cohorts...
...performances that can have no interest to an outside public, the Harvard Dramatic club will amuse itself and the friends of the players by reviving next month "Murray Hill," farce by the actor. Leslie Howard, produced at the Copley four or five seasons ago. The controlling element is in that happy stage of adolescence in which it fancies itself as so many "born actors." For many years past, it has been the distinctive and creditable custom of the club to act plays, often notable, that would other wise go unproduced in Boston and Cambridge. Now it prefers a shopworn farce...
Plans for "Murray Hill," previously announced as the fall production of the Harvard Dramatic Club, have been discontinued and "Cake" by Witter Bynner '02 will be produced instead, according to an announcement made last night by the executive committee of the club. Performances will be presented in Brattle Hall on December 10, 11, and 12, and a Boston performance is scheduled for December...
Years ago he bought a large estate in Oyster Bay, L. I., hard by Theodore Roosevelt's Sagamore Hill. Here he designed and built an amazing house, "Laurelton Hall." which looks a little like a M axfield Parrish palace, a little like a factory, is magnificently kept up and contains a mosaic chapel, greenhouses, fountains, innumerable stained glass windows, rubber trees, orchids, and, frightening to children, a colossal bronze crab...
...Murray Hill" is a satire upon the people who live in the Beacon Hill section of New York. The young heroine, who has been scrupulously reared by three maiden aunts still living in the Mauve Decade, is brought face to face with the modern world by the advent of her cousin from Chicago. To gain the aura of respectibility necessary to pass the Victorian fastnesses of the ancestral mansion, he is forced to change places with a deputy assistant mortician, and put the finishing touches on the cremation of an elderly and unwept female relative. He not only completely changes...