Word: bays
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...indifference of the authorities at Harvard toward Professor Baker and his famous drama course, which has resulted in moving the course bodily to Yale, is probably the result of an old Brahmin tradition in Back Bay that any one having to do with the theatre is just a wee bit declasse. It is all right to work around footlights in Hasty Pudding theatricals, with the proper patronesses, but beyond that one simply does not go. However, as Professor Baker can probably do his work much more efficiently at Yale, the existence of this attitude at Harvard would seem...
...scene of this year's production is laid in the North West country and its action deals with the fortunes and misfortunes of one Pierre of the Woods, the leading character, who is a free trader struggling against the competition of the Hudson Bay Company. Pierre is alsely accused of being a robber by an unscrupulous but clever gambler known as the Count. These accusations are responsible for the appearance of a silent character attired in a scarlet coat, a member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Upon this silent spectator hinges the action of the plot...
...love interest is supplied in the part of Charline, the daughter of MacGregor, the Scotch facteur of the Hudson Bay Company's post at Koyokuk. In the character of Secret W. Service, the anaemic poet of the northland, is offered an opportunity for rich satire upon literature dealing with the "great open spaces...
Parental eyebrows went up, concern was felt, when a committee, composed of faculty and undergraduate members of six universities and colleges in greater Boston, published a report on living conditions in the students' area of Back Bay. Said the investigators...
...girl and music department, the following are most divertingly displayed : Kid Boots, The Grab Bay, Rose-Marie, The Dream Girl, I'll Say She Is, Grand Street Follies, Scandals, Ziegfeld Follies, Ritz Revue, Annie Dear, Dixie to Broadway...