Word: act
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With the announcement in today's CRIMSON, the Cercle Francais indicates that it too is alive to Modern Times. Not so extreme that patrons of their dramatic production will spend the first act in vain attempts to make sense out of the doings of those upon the stage and the last two in a program-thumbing defeatism, still the members of the Cercle show a heartening discontent with mere conventional performance. The staging of seventeenth century plays in modern dress is not entirely unprecedented, but hitherto the creations of Moliere have been passed over by the managers who have...
...program for the concert has been announced as follows: 1. Under the Double Eagle Up the Street Banjo Club Wagner Morse Up the Street Morse Banjo Club 2. Invictus Huhn The House by the Side of the Road Galesian Football Songs Vocal Club 3. Specialty Act S. W. Burbank '29 4. Liebesfrend Kerisler Narcissus Nevin Narcissus Nevin Mandolin Club 5. Specialty Act J.S.B. Archer '31 6. Gold Coast Orchestra 7. Specialty Act Robert Reinhart '29 8. Landsighting Grieg The Bells of St. Mary's Adams Vocal Club 9. Football Medley Arranged by Rice Banjo Club 10. Fair Harvard Combined Clubs
...view of the act that so much has been written concerning the overemphasis of intercollegiate football there are those who might regard this as a healthy sign and a disposition on the part of the Yale graduate to minimize the importance of the game Certainly there was no indication of hysteria on the part of the Yale undergraduate either before or during the late Yale-Harvard game...
Wong is a Chinese character but as crooked as the letter S. He tosses a Caucasian girl behind a secret panel and in the last act gives a party at which there is a fire-eating magician. Also, in the last act, there is the San Francisco earthquake and fire. The plot deals with dope-peddling; Slippery Jim (Robert Bentley) is the chief dope-peddler; he leaves the racket and marries a pure, sweet girl. Wong is killed in the earthquake...
...Instead, the drama of its one genuine situation-a harlot (Norma Talmadge) suspected of the murder of a suicide-is ignored in favor of a series of patently unreal and cinematic developments in which the lady, reformed, is called upon to perform for the sake of her country an act which patriotism unconvincingly transforms from a two-rouble incident to a Holy Sacrifice...