Alice But this woman's name was Rose Bancroft!!

One of the roles she turned down was that of " Mrs. Robinson " in The Graduate, a role that eventually went to Anne Bancroft.

This concept was enshrined in a series of treaties between the United States and other countries ( the Bancroft Treaties ).

The statue of Roger Williams at Roger Williams UniversityMoore ( 1963 ) traces the ' negative ' approach of the orthodox Puritan writers ( Bradford, Winthrop, Morton, Cotton Mather, Hutchinson, Winsor, and Dexter ), the ' romantic ' approach ( George Bancroft, Vernon Parrington, Ernst, and Brockunier ) and the ' realistic ' approach ( Backus, H. Richard Niebuhr, Roland Bainton, and Hudson ), and regards the work of Mauro Calamandrei, who was followed by Perry Miller and Ola Winslow, as crucial.

" Nichols never seriously considered her for the part, preferring to cast a younger woman ( Anne Bancroft was 36 while Gardner was 45 ), but he did visit her hotel, where he later recounted that " she sat at a little French desk with a telephone, she went through every movie star cliché.

The book was made into a 1986 film with Anne Bancroft and Anthony Hopkins and also into a play and a BBC radio drama.

Both Davis and Crawford were backstage when the absent Anne Bancroft was announced as the winner, and Crawford accepted the award on her behalf.

The company was led by the Bancroft family, which effectively controlled 64 % of all voting stock, before being acquired by News Corporation.

It was worth US $ 5 billion or $ 60 a share, giving NewsCorp control of The Wall Street Journal and ending the Bancroft family's 105 years of ownership.

The institution was founded as the Naval School in 1845 by Secretary of the Navy George Bancroft.

According to Bancroft, " The population of San Juan Capistrano in 1834 had decreased to 861 souls, and in 1840 it was probably less than 500 with less than 100 at the pueblo proper ; while in its crops San Juan ( Capistrano ) showed a larger deterioration than any other ( missionary ) establishment.

He was traded to the perennial second-division-dwelling Boston Braves during the offseason with Dave Bancroft and Bill Cunningham for Joe Oeschger and Billy Southworth after the 1924 season .< ref >

Brooks was aware of the film, which co-starred Brooks ' wife, Anne Bancroft, and, skeptical that Hoffman would get the role, agreed to let him audition.

" I remember finding myself in an elevator with Brooks and his wife, actress Anne Bancroft, in New York City a few months after The Producers was released.

The film was remade in 1983 by Alan Johnson featuring Mel Brooks and Anne Bancroft.

* A statue by John Henry Foley was shown at the 1851 Great Exhibition and later donated to the Bancroft Gardens, Stratford-upon-Avon where it now stands.

* Jack Temple Kirby ( 1938 – 2009 ), historian of the Southern United States, who was awarded the Bancroft Prize for his 2006 book Mockingbird Song: Ecological Landscapes of the South.

The county was enlarged northward in 1857 by the inclusion of the former Bancroft County.

William Bancroft, a successful Wilmington businessman, led the effort to establish open parkland in Wilmington and was heavily influenced by the work of Frederick Law Olmsted.

The site that became Bancroft was homesteaded in the mid-1870s by Ford Bella Barber and Deborah ( Watson ) Barber, who came from Maine to settle in Nebraska.

The village was named after George Bancroft.

In her 1925 Nebraska Place-Names, Lilian Linder Fitzpatrick says that it was historian George Bancroft.

However, more recent sources say that the Bancroft whose name was used was " a well-liked civil engineer with the railroad ".

Giovanni Turini, a sculptor from Italy, who was born in 1841 and died in 1899, made the statue of Giuseppe Garibaldi, a man he served in the fighting surrounding the unification of Italy, in Washington Square, and also the bust of Giuseppe Mazzini in Central Park ; Actress Anne Bancroft ( Brooks ) ( Born: September 17, 1931 – Died: June 6, 2005 ).

Bancroft was born in Worcester, and began his education at Phillips Exeter Academy and entered Harvard College at thirteen years of age.

Bancroft was born in Granville, Ohio to Azariah Ashley Bancroft and Lucy Howe Bancroft.

Bancroft was born at Farnworth, then a village in south Lancashire, in 1544.

Sir Squire Bancroft ( 14 May 1841 – 19 April 1926 ), born Squire White Butterfield, was an English actor-manager.

Notable people born in the Panama Canal Zone include Richard Prince, Kenneth Bancroft Clark, Rod Carew, geologist Thomas H. Jordan, Edward A. Murphy, Jr., and John McCain, the Republican 2008 presidential candidate and US Senator from Arizona.

Bancroft was born in Sioux City, Iowa, the youngest of three children.

Ann Bancroft ( born September 29, 1955 ) is an American author, teacher, and adventurer.

Bancroft was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1882.

One of his sons was born Arthur Bancroft Schlesinger and added " Meier " as his middle name later in life

* Ann Bancroft ( born 1955 ), American explorer

* G. Michael Bancroft ( born 1942 ), Canadian chemist and synchrotron scientist

He was born in the coal-mining village of Newstead, Nottinghamshire, the only child of mineworker and former coalminer William Henstock and Mary Ellen Henstock ( née Bancroft ).

Chief Andrews was born in Boston where he attended Cathedral of Holy Cross, Bancroft and Rice Public Schools, and the English High School.

The Bancroft management at the Prince of Wales's Theatre constituted a new era in the development of the English stage and had the effect of reviving the London interest in modern drama.

The Bancrofts collaborated in the production of two volumes of reminiscences called Mr. and Mrs. Bancroft On and Off the Stage, Written by Themselves ( London, 1888 ) and The Bancrofts: Recollections of Sixty Years ( Dutton and Co .: London, 1909 ).

In 1592 he served the office of Junior Proctor and five years later became chaplain to Dr Bancroft, then Bishop of London and shortly to become Archbishop of Canterbury by whose favour he quickly rose through the ranks.

On the authority of Bancroft, he obtained the rectory of St Margaret, New Fish Street, London which he resigned in 1604 and the vicarage of Chigwell in Essex on 14 June 1597 which he resigned in 1605.

The Archbishop of Canterbury John Whitgift and the Bishop of London Richard Bancroft banned the Scourge and had it publicly burned, along with copies of works by other satirists, on 4 June 1599.

Useful to the English government and church for his polemics, Watson was under the protection of Richard Bancroft, then bishop of London.

He served as secretary of the American legation in London under George Bancroft.

Wingfield obtained the approval of Richard Bancroft, Archbishop of Canterbury, his old London vicar at St. Andrew's, Holborn, for the Reverend Robert Hunt of Old Heathfield ( who was in disgrace from his arrival there in 1602 for immorality with his servant, Thomasina Plumber, and for absenteeism and thereby neglect of his congregation ).

In 1877, at sixteen, he was engaged as an actor in the company of Mr. and Mrs. Squire Bancroft in London, and for fourteen years played legitimate parts at the Court Theatre and elsewhere.