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 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.

Bancroft was born in Rotherhithe, London.

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.

Worcester cites a Mr. Bancroft who,

* Bancroft School, Worcester MA.

* Bancroft Tower, which was erected in honor of him on Bancroft Tower Road Worcester, MA.

* Bancroft Commons, an apartment building in downtown Worcester, MA.

* Bancroft Street, Worcester, MA.

* Bancroft Tower, Worcester, Massachusetts

* Martha Burt Wright and Anne M. Bancroft ( editors ): History of the Oread Collegiate Institute, Worcester, Mass.

Located on a campus in Worcester, Massachusetts, Bancroft School is an independent, co-educational, Pre-K-12, college-preparatory day school serving the communities of Central Massachusetts and MetroWest Boston.

* 1900: Bancroft School established at 93 Elm Street by a group of Worcester parents.

* Bancroft School, a private K-12 school in Worcester, Massachusetts, in the United States

* Bancroft School of Massage Therapy in Worcester, Massachusetts, in the United States

The Bancroft School of Massage Therapy, located in Worcester, Massachusetts, was founded in 1950 by Henry LaFleur, proprietor of the Bancroft Health Center, a facility specializing in Swedish Massage and Sports Massage since 1938.

He purchased the George School of Massage in Boston, Massachusetts, moved it to Worcester, and renamed it the Bancroft School of Massage.