Biographical Information re William E. Crist

122 CURRENT BIOGRAPHY 1945 CRAWFORD, CHERYL-Continued (1941), This Gun for Hire (1942), Holy Mat- ican Barracks. Re Meanwhile, in October 1944, Miss Craw- rimony (1944), and The Lodger (1944) were joined the Twenty- ford's production of The Perfect Marriage, some of his best-known pictures. Madison Barracks, with Miriam Hopkins and Victor Jory, was Obituary Following this, for called "singularly uninspired." It closed in Jan- N Y Times p54 D 10 '44 por was instructor in uary 1945, and shortly afterward Miss Craw- R.O.T.C. at Corne} ford presented Margaret Webster's production mer of 1929 the Li of The Tempest, with the ballet dancer Zor- CRET, PAUL P(HILIPPE) (kra) Oct. Point as an instruc ina as Ariel and the Negro actor Canada 23, 1876-Sept. 8, 1945 French-born American three years. Lee as Caliban. Its $50,000 cost was sup- architect; professor of design at the University Crist's next assig plied by a reported twenty-seven backers. of Pennsylvania (1903-37) consultant to Navy to China, in October Played on a multilevel revolving stage, and Department and to Army Engineer Office at guage student, the with music scored by David Diamond, The Pittsburgh; designed war memorials of First tioned at Peiping Tempest was acclaimed by reviewers and ran World War in France, Folger Shakespeare when he became a for 101 performances, an all-time record (the Library and Federal Reserve Building in Wash- taché at Nanking. previous high for performances of "this most ington, D.C., and Detroit Institute of Arts. been promoted on difficult of Shakespeare's plays to stage" was See Current Biography 1942 Yearbook. turned to the Unite thirty-two). It went on tour in September Obituary Sixteenth Infantry 1945, including an engagement at the New York N Y Times p9 S 9 '45 In August 1937 he City Center. and General Staff About this time Cheryl Crawford announced worth, Kansas, fro the result of many months of planning-a reper- CREWE, ROBERT OFFLEY ASHBUR- the following June. tory theater supervised by Margaret Webster, TON CREWE-MILNES, 1ST MARQUIS Harrison in Indian Eva Le Gallienne, and herself, to be opened OF Jan. 12, 1858-June 20, 1945 British enth Infantry and in September 1946. Miss Crawford, who is statesman; leader of Liberal Party in the House plans and training business manager, put a stock issue on the of Lords until resignation seven months before vember of that market late in September 1945, and by early his death; had held many Government offices, Washington, D.C., November announced that two-thirds of the including those of Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland Intelligence Divisic required $300,000 had already been raised. The (1892-95), Lord Privy Seal (1908 and 1912- General Staff. On American Repertory Theatre, Inc., as it is 15), Secretary of State for India (1910-15), moted to major. called, is to have a repertory of six plays Ambassador to Paris (1922-28), and Secretary tered the Second to be prepared by a company of about thirty of State for War (1931). rapidly in rank. actors, under contract for a minimum of two (temporary) at th seasons, and headed by Eva Le Gallienne and Obituary vanced to colonel Victor Jory. N Y Times p19 Je 21 '45 the next year, and The Ohio-born producer is described as porary) in March CRIST, WILLIAM E(ARL) (krist) Aug. went from his dut "brisk yet gracious, and comely with her blue eyes, tailored clothes, and short, wavy dark 10, 1898- United States Army officer White, Oregon, to commander of the bob." Generally calm, she seldom attends her Address: b. c/o War Department, Washington, which he remained own premières because the strain is too great. D.C.; h. 1417 44th St., N.W., Washington, Miss Crawford is said to have read "every- In December Cri D.C. thing in poetry" and to remember all of it, Group in Washing and is credited with the most complete collec- The manifold problems involved in the OC- he became head o: tion in existence of American popular sheet cupation of Japan have been the subject of in- United States Mili music since 1900. On the slightest encourage- ternational concern since General Douglas Mac- Union. In Moscow ment, her friends say, she will sing any old Arthur first assumed control of the defeated significant negotiat popular song one can name with more enthusi- Empire in early September 1945. Serving un- was this mission W asm than voice, and tell who wrote it. But der the Supreme Commander as chief of the of the Anglo-A1 Miss Crawford's main preoccupation is with military government section is Brigadier Gen- Africa shuttle-bom the theatrical possibilities of anything she eral William E. Crist, who is charged with of bases in the U comes across "In fact," wrote Mary Ander- the responsibility of maintaining law and or- tive venture was f son in the New York World-Telegram, "it is der in Japan. Crist's twenty-five-year Army and Stalin at the her belief that everything, whether it's cooking carcer had taken him to the Orient twice be- inaugurated in Jun her specialty of spareribs with an original fore, when he served for periods in China. ing Fortresses, p sauce, delving into psychoanalysis, or listening In the course of the Second World War the bombed targets in to a symphony, bears on the theater." She sel- General has seen duty in the Soviet Union, their route to la dom has lunch : "On light days," Miss Craw- Hawaii, and on Okinawa, as deputy commander American air bases ford says, "I sometimes have a double orange of the military government. fueling and reloadi juice in a drugstore." A Pennsylvanian, William Earl Crist was verse trip, droppir born in the capital city, Harrisburg, on August the way. References 10, 1898, the son of Samuel Curtis and Emma The General wer Collier's 110:48+ J1 4 '42 por Levina (Orr) Crist. He attended the United to the Pacific in Cue 10:17 Ag 2 '41 por States Military Academy at West Point, earn- Tenth Army in H N Y Post p14 N 26 '41 por ing his degree in 1920. Upon graduation Crist Affairs Office. U N Y Sun p16 F 17 '42 por was commissioned a second lieutenant, on July tenant General Sir N Y World-Telegram p28 F 11 '44 por 2, and on the same date promoted to first Tenth Army inva Theatre Arts :622-3 O '42 il lieutenant. Two months later the young West the Ryukyu Island Clurman, H. The Fervent Years (1945) Pointer entered the Infantry School at Fort landed on the isla Who's Who in America, 1944-45 Benning, Georgia, from which he was gradu- and there served a lated in June 1921. Crist then remained at the Okinawa Military Infantry School as an instructor for two tary government d CREGAR, LAIRD (krä-gär' lârd) July years. His next assignment, in July 1923, took anese-controlled te 28, 1916-Dec. 9, 1944 Hollywood character him to Tientsin, China, where he was sta- paign he was face actor; Blood and Sand (1941), Charlie's Aunt tioned with the Fifteenth Infantry at the Amer- dling the natives