Word: barkers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Certain incongruities are also to be found in the happenings of the night. There was, for instance, H. S. Barker, a Somerville drug clerk, who in attempting to transfer from a bus at the Square, before taking 10 steps, was hit on the head and piled into the wagon with the students. Baker, it is said, is "married and has two children...
...Barker was written by Kenyon Nicholson, young Columbia University professor of dramatic art. Paradoxically, it falls short of technical efficiency the while it achieves a glorious fullness of unacademic atmosphere, characterization and emotional conflict. In the play, all the tent-show folk-hula dancer, snake-charmer, clown, odd-job men - accept with varying humors their haphazard, futile nom-adism-all except the barker, "Nifty" Miller, soul and essence of the entire raucous flimflam. He, chained like the others to the aimless tent life, holds fast to the idea that his only son will one day be a wealthy, respectable lawyer...
...found a gem. It was in the American Mercury and it advertised that melange of outgrown modes and manners, The Mauve Decade by Thomas Beer (TIME, July 5, BOOKS), not only in the curlicued typefaces of 30 years ago, but likewise in the hoarse, stentorian phrases of an 1890 barker...
...Howard F. Barker, author of "American Speech," recently compiled a list of the ten first U. S. families...
Prunella. Students of the Theatre Guild School revived this fantasy by Laurence Housman and Harley Granville-Barker for three special matinees. Winthrop Ames officiated as guest director. The story is that of Pierrot and Pierette. One young lady, Sylvia Sidney, gave brilliant promise. The matinees attracted sufficient attention to be extended...