Word: snowden
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...started a couple of years ago when Homer Snowden decided it was a shame that Christmas had become so commercial. "People are forgetting the story of Christ's birth and the real meaning of Christmas," said Homer, a Texan through & through, a millionaire wildcatter, and as determined a Christian as ever wore cowboy boots...
...production, given entirely in Latin, has a spontaneity seldom seen even in plays whose medium is English--a tribute to Messrs. Maurice Snowden and Robert Brooks for their direction of a theater-piece that offers such obstacles to "sophisticated" tastes. Language difficulties are reduced to a minimum, and the obvious enthusiasm of the cast--which sometimes, but infrequently, amounts to overplaying--carries the play along when exact meaning may be in doubt. A sense of timing, so important to the success of any farce, seems to be well nigh perfect, so that situations are always clear though subtleties be lost...
...those who don't speak Latin fluently but don't want to miss some of the subtleties in the Classics Club's "Miles Gloriosus," which opens Friday, Maurice R. Snowden, instructor in Classics, will offer an explanatory talk on the play at 8 p.m. tonight in Leverett Junior Common Room...
Those acting in the lusty Plautus comedy will be James R. Druwnright '51, Albert I. Borowitz '51, Maurice R. Snowden instructor in Classics, George I. Mulhern '51, John E. Rexine '51, Paul T. Broneer '51, Brooks Emmons, Radcliffe '50, David L. Smith '51, Joseph B. Dellet '51, Dorothea Reynolds, Radcliffe '51, Ann Sweeny, Radcliffe '50, Marilyn Bradley, Radcliffe '51, and Andreas Lowenfield...
...remained staunchly Democratic after Congressman Charles Creighton Carlin Sr., of Alexandria, who had worked briefly as a reporter on the Gazette, bought it in 1911 from the Snowden heirs. Now Editor C. C. Carlin Jr., 49, the courtly, conservative son of the late Congressman, runs the Gazette in the same unreconstructed way. He proudly displays the Stars & Bars alongside an autographed photograph of Robert E. Lee in his tiny, cluttered office, just as proudly boasts that the Gazette was the first and northernmost newspaper to raise a rebel yell in the Dixiecrats' cause...