Word: barnumism
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...cast for the Hasty Pudding annual show has been selected and the dates of performances definitely decided upon. "Barnum Was Right" is the name of the play, which was written by S. P. Sears '17 and R. E. Sherwood '18. It is in a prologue and two acts, and deals with the efforts of the Spirit of the Movies to gain recognition among the arts on Mt. Olympus. Jupiter is called upon to decide, and professing ignorance of the movies, is led to the earth by the Spirit of the Movies to see them and judge their claims...
...Hasty Pudding Club has chosen for its annual musical comedy this year "Barnum Was Right," written by Robert Emmet Sherwood '18, of New York City. The music was written by Samuel Power Sears '18, of Quincy. There were six manuscripts submitted in the competition, which was judged by a committee composed of J. S. Seabury and A. H. Parker...
...scenes of "Barnum Was Right" are laid in a moving picture studio, to which a stranger who has never before seen moving pictures comes. He goes through an amazing series of adventures with the "vampire" member of the "movie" stock company, all the time being photographed by a moving-picture camera without his knowledge, and when the denoument arrives, he concedes that the "movies" are on a par with all the other fine arts, and deserving of a representative among the muses...
...more unfortunate person who failed to study it enough? The punishment meted out in Hawthorne's "Scarlet Letter" has always seemed to us eminently fitting; yet we had never thought the mere non-Latinist deserved such a brand. But perhaps it is for the benefit of the public. Peter Barnum said the public liked to be fooled; and we certainly fool the public with our pompous scientific degree. Meanwhile, the initiated know that the yellow crow's-foot indicates "not knowledge of science, but ignorance of Latin"; and they wonder even at the steadfastness of tradition...
Yale graduates.--Stroke, J. A. Appleton '14; 7, R. Romeyn '13; 6, H. L. Rogers '14; 5, H. Roberts '09; 4, R. B. Meyer '14; 3, H. L. Livingston '09; 2, H. Bolton '07; bow, C. C. Elwell, Jr., '11; cox., P. Barnum...