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Charles Cyprian Strong Cushing (S&B 1902)

Playwright. Author. Yale University. Skull and Bones. He Boule. Delta Kappa Epsilon.

For many years on Class reunion committees and designed reunion costumes, honorary member Yale University Dramatic Association, member American Dramatists Guild and Episcopal church.[4]

Under name “Torn” dishing author of several plays which appeared onBroadway; these include Sari (1912), The Devil in the Cheese (1926), LaGringa (1927), and Barely Proper (1931), dramatized Blasco Ibanez’novel Blood and Sand (1921) and, with David Belasco, adapted Laugh, Clown, Laugh from the Italian (1923), co-author Thank You (1921),wrote Out O’Luck for Yale University Dramatic Association (1925).[4]

Scenario writer in Hollywood.[4]

WW1 - Jul 1917 to Feb 1918, overseas in entertainment division Y.M.C.A.[4]

1906 to 1919 - instructor in English and Greek Westminster School.[4]

1903 - Tutor in the English Soudan, attended Sargent Dramatic School one year.[4]

1902 - Graduated Yale, Skull and Bones Patriarch.[1]

Also author of a number of plays produced by students at Westminster School.[4]

Died 6 Mar 1941, Following an operation for brain tumour. Age 61. Episcopal Church.

[1] - America’s Secret Establishment. An Introduction to the Order of Skull and Bones by Antony C. Sutton (2004)

[2] - Fleshing Out Skull & Bones - Investigations into America’s Most Powerful Secret Society 2008 by Antony Sutton, Howard Altman, Kris Millegan, Dr Ralph Bunch, Anton Chaitkin and Webster Griffin Tarpley

[3] - Skull and Bones Membership List by David Luhrssen

[4] - Yale Obituaries