Word: act
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Past and present conditions at the University will be discussed at the dinner. The speakers will be Captain H. W. Burns '28, Coach F. G. Mitchell and W. J. Bingham '16, Director of Athletics. Dr. Channing Frothingham '02 will act as toastmaster...
...representing 22,000.000 Protestants. Its purpose would be to act as a clearing house for funds donated for the dissemination of Protestant religious education. It would be in the control of trustees appointed by various interdenominational organizations and by the American Bankers' Association; funds would be distributed to approved teaching organiza- tions without denominational discrimination...
...Queen's Husband. As diarist of an unidentified king, discovered last week acting oddly upon the stage of a Manhattan theatre, Robert Emmet Sherwood develops ramifications. He sets up a satire on royalty, gilds it with hot romance and stripes the second act with melodrama. One hears an undertone of Bolshevism and unmistakable echoes of the derision that dogged Queen Marie across our country. Mr. Sherwood dares destroy any trace of consistency by marrying off his Princess to her plumber's son at the end with as glossy a happy ending as ever was pasted on the movies which...
...this curiously agree able king. He plays with such gentle cun ning that the evening swishes suavely past like a cat in silk pajamas. There are several shrewd helpers and an excellent back stage device to counterfeit the rattles of artillery deploying before the palace in the embattled second act. Mr. Sherwood has contributed much high nonsense, nota bly a bitter game of checkers between the King and a gravely obese footman...
...devout but too-refined lady infected with medievalism is married to a rich banker. Finding in his library a copy of Boccaccio's stories made doubly suggestive by "piquant illustrations," she reads them greedily. This, as first act rhetoric has drilled the audience to expect, produces a potent effect on the cool bride; she becomes coy, passionate, kittenish. The dialogue is a rigid translation from the Italian; like the direction and the acting, it is excessively clumsy...