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Indian Summer
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature
...there meets his boyhood acquaintance Evalina Bowen, now a middle‐aged widow, and her young friend Imogene Graham. Imogene's sympathy is aroused when she learns that Colville had been disappointed in love, and her pity leads to their...
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Amy Beach
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...Marcy Cheney on September 5, 1867, in Henniker, New Hampshire, Beach was the only child of Charles Abbor Cheney and Clara Imogene (Marcy) Cheney. Her father was a mathematician and businessman who worked in paper manufacturing business that his father...
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Matthew Gregory Lewis
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...his melodramatic plays the most famous is The Castle Spectre (1797). His ballads, notably Alonzo the Brave and the Fair Imogene, influenced Sir Walter Scott 's early poetry. Bibliography: See biography by L. F. Peck (1961); studies by M. Summers...
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Wythe, George
Encyclopedia entry from: West's Encyclopedia of American Law
...witness was an African American, who was disqualified from testifying under the laws of Virginia. further readings Brown, Imogene E. 1981. American Aristides: A Biography of George Wythe. Rutherford, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ. Press. Callahan...
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Wizard of Oz, The
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Theatre
...Tietjens, A. Baldwin Sloane (music). [Majestic Theatre, 293 perf.] When little Dorothy ( Anna Laughlin) and her cow Imogene ( Joseph Schrode) are whisked away from her Kansas farm by a wild cyclone and taken to the faraway land of Oz, they are joined...
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New Faces
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Theatre
...were offered in 1934, 1936, 1942, 1952, 1956, 1962, and 1968. Players who made early appearances in the show included Imogene Coca, Henry Fonda , Van Johnson, Eartha Kitt, Paul Lynde, Maggie Smith, T. C. Jones, Madeline Kahn , and Robert Klein...
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Henry Fonda
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...Wednesday. Critics began noticing Fonda in 1934 when he appeared in the revue New Faces, doing comic sketches with actress Imogene Coca. Through his work in summer stock, Fonda got a big break later in 1934 when he was cast as the farmer, Dan Harrow...
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Mather, Margaret
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Theatre
...with Hill and toured in her own company, then retired. In 1897 she emerged from retirement to play her old roles as well as Imogene in Cymbeline , but died while on tour. Otis Skinner , for a time her leading man, said she “had impulse, power...
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Bock and Harnick
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Theatre
...and began to compose songs for shows in high school and at the University of Wisconsin. After writing for Sid Caesar and Imogene Coca's television shows and for summer camp revues, Bock collaborated with lyricist Larry Holofcener on several songs for...
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George Wythe
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...Additional Sources Blackburn, Joyce., George Wythe of Williamsburg, New York: Harper & Row, 1975. Brown, Imogene E., American Aristides: a biography of George Wythe, Rutherford N.J: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1981. Dill...
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