WBJ has partnered with the Worcester Historical Museum to run a year-long trivia contest in celebration of the 300th anniversary of Worcester’s founding on June 14, 1722.
Readers, who wish to participate in the contest, should submit their answers into the form below by March. The readers will the most correct answers will win a special year-end prize package.
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Early Hollywood
The writer Samuel Behrman was born to Lithuanian immigrant parents in Worcester, living much of his early life in a three-decker on Providence Street, of which he wrote: “These triple-deckers, which straggled up our hill, were mostly sadly in need of paint jobs and their mass appearance was somewhat depressing. But in many other respects they were not so bad. They had balconies, front and back, which we called piazzas. The yards in the back had fruit trees–cherry and pear and apple.” Throughout his career, Behrman would work as a screenwriter, playwright, and regular writer for The New Yorker.
Trivia question: Samuel Behrman contributed as a screenwriter on three movies for what famous Hollywood actor, including her last film “Two-Faced Woman”?
And the answer to last edition’s question: The long-time manufacturing site on which the Osgood Bradley Building was built is now known as the student housing complex The Edge at Union Station.
