Alfred Vincent Kidder

Alfred Vincent Kidder 1885-1963, American archaeologist, b. Marquette, Mich., grad. Harvard (B.A. 1908; Ph.D. 1914). From 1915 to 1929 he conducted excavations at Pecos, N.Mex., for the Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass. This research is considered to have laid the foundation for modern archaeological field methods. In the late 1920s he started the Pecos conferences for archaeologists and ethnologists. As an associate in charge of archaeological investigations (1927-29) and as chairman of the division of historical research (1929-50) at the Carnegie Institution, he conducted a broad-scale research program in the Guatemalan highlands which established the framework of Mayan stratigraphy. In 1939 he became honorary curator of Southwestern American archaeology at the Peabody Museum, Harvard. His writings include Introduction to the Study of Southwestern Archaeology (1924), regarded as the first comprehensive archaeological study of a New World area; The Pottery of Pecos (2 vol., 1931-36); The Artifacts of Pecos (1932); and Pecos, New Mexico: Archaeological Notes (1958).

Bibliography: See biography by R. B. Woodbury (1973).

Gardenia, Vincent [né Vincente Scognamiglio] (1922–92), character actor. Gardenia was a jowly comic player who excelled in ethnic types, particularly hassled husbands, fathers, and businessmen. He was born in Naples, Italy, but grew up in New York, where he studied acting at the Italian Theatre, making his professional Manhattan debut in 1955. He played minor roles in dramas until the late 1960s, when he established himself as an adept comic actor. Among Gardenia's most‐ remembered performances were the frantic father Carol Newquist in Little Murders (1969), the overcautious brother Harry Edison in The Prisoner of Second Avenue (1971), the Job‐like manufacturer Joe Benjamin in God's Favorite (1974), the widower Alfred Rossi in an autumnal romance in Ballroom (1978), and the Italian‐restaurant owner Lou Graziano in Breaking Legs (1991).