Navy Restores Old Main to Useful Life at Arizona
The University of Arizona Old Main, condemned since 1938, is repaired by the U S Navy for use as a naval indoctrination school. Since fall 1942, over 10 000 men have trained in 60 day programs under Capt Wilford E Cheadle USN ret at the campus.
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Sally Dixon
James Miller Leighton
University of Rizona
Old Main
E. D. Herrera
State of Arizona
United States Avy
USN
Herrera
Ain
Junni Group
University
University of Arizona
United States Navy
Don Phillips
Old Main at University of Arizona Birth of Higher Education
The piece traces Old Main as the first University of Arizona building begun in 1887 after funds were approved on Oct. 13 and ground broken Oct. 27. It recounts early campus life, wartime relocations, and plans for future use of the building and the USS Arizona bell.
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Old Main
Arizona Sun
University of Arizona
C. C. Stevens
University For
Tucson
Ft. Lowell
Stevens
Arizona's University
Army Hamlet staged for 1750 at Oahu camp
Maj Maurice Evans staged a bare stage Hamlet for 1,750 soldiers at Army Tent Camp, Oahu. The performance tested if drama can travel to the front without scenery while soldiers heckled Ophelia and the ghost, but many stayed for the end.
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Oahu
T. H
Wa.p
Maurice Evans
Ophelia
Denmark
Hamlet
Evans
Hawaiian Islands
Slim Ophelia
Hamlet review notes mix of pathos and humor
Evans bears Ophelia’s body on a Red Cross stretcher rather than a shield yet delivers. Hamlet opens with a jab at “the villain naturally a staff sergeant.” The crowd roars at the quip “Frailty, thy name is woman.”
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Evans
Ophelia
Hamlet
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