Word: allen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Edward Campbell Aswell of Nashville, Tenn.; Allen Van Arnum Austin of Grand Rapids, Mich.; Benjamin M. Banks of Malden, Mass.; Louis William Black of Rochester, N. Y.; Stewart Scott Cairns of Cheises Mass.; Samuel Harris Checkver of Lynn; Hoyt Rodney Gale of New York City; Lester Ginsburg of Dorchester; Douglas Huntley Gordon of Baltimore, Md.; Henry Melvin Hart Jr. of Spokane, Wash.; James McLeHand Hawkes of East Lynn; Israel Klein of Brockton; Stanley Jasspon Kuaits of Worcester; Chester Tevis Lane of Richmond, Surrey, England; Harold Joseph Mallison of New York City; Antonio Ortizy Ortiz of Hottiacao Porto Rico; Oscar Moore...
...play is not particularly good. Handicapped by its star, it makes mediocre entertainment. Mr. Blackmer makes the dent a pillow might if fired from a cannon instead of solid shot. The presence of Martha Bryan Allen, loveliest of our younger actresses, is a vast pictorial advantage...
Florida Girl. Earl Carroll, who usually contents himself with Vanities, turned with this piece to musical comedy. He made Lester Allen a leading comedian in the process and amused the initial gathering moderately...
...Allen is a comic who helped a lot in several Scandals and other musical pieces. He is a detective in this one, forced to discover smuggled diamonds before midnight. The process of the discovery is utterly illogical-there-fore completely and amusingly suited to musical comedy...
...delightfully humorous article entitled "The Divine Right of the Alumni", appearing in the current Independent, Mr. Frederick L. Allen '12 pictures a loyal alumnus cherishing a fond affection for an alma mater he no longer understands and blundering incompetently about without exercising "a cubic millimeter of his brain." There are many men who help to create alumni opinion in just the manner Mr. Allen describes, though such a portrait is more caricature than a likeness. Amusing as the picture is, there is always a basis of truth in satire; and undergraduates who later will swell the great body of alumni...