Entertainment & Arts
Steve Martin is not the only playwright in the last year to imagine a meeting between two historical personages (Einstein and Picasso palavered in his “Picasso at the Lapine Agile”).
Nov. 6, 1995
The theater Nathan and Ruth Hale started in 1947 is now run by their grandsons. Glendale Centre Theatre celebrates its 50th.
Jan. 16, 1997
Television
“General Motors Playwrights Theater,” airing on cable four times a year, is the only series on television that looks like drama from TV’s “Golden Age”--that is, the style and the tone suggest a short play, not a movie or a telefilm.
Jan. 14, 1992
Robert Beverly Hale, a former curator at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, an abstract painter and a distant relative of Revolutionary War patriot Nathan Hale, has died at age 84.
Nov. 16, 1985
World & Nation
--The latest release of 550,000 pages of former President Richard M.
Dec. 12, 1988
Jonathan Turley’s Jan. 23 commentary (“Sever Lindh’s Ties to His Homeland”) suggested that John Walker Lindh may not be a citizen through his taking up arms for the then-Taliban-led Afghan government.
Jan. 27, 2002
President Reagan today ordered two Poseidon submarines dismantled to remain in technical compliance with the 1979 SALT II treaty but warned the Soviet Union that the United States may exceed the pact’s limits on nuclear weapons later this year.
May 27, 1986
High School Sports
Robin Beauregard, from Marina High and UCLA, scored once for the U.S. women’s team in a 14-8 exhibition loss to Australia Friday in Sydney.
June 10, 2000
Clara Hale, whose work with hundreds of drug-addicted infants earned her the affectionate nickname “Mother” and accolades from Harlem to the White House, died Friday.
Dec. 19, 1992
California
Ex-Murrieta Valley High football players ‘started out as bullies and graduated’ to robberies, assaults, an officer says.
Feb. 16, 2007