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George White's Scandals. Some like musical comedy hot, some like it bold, some like it well seasoned, so that they can understand the jokes. On the last score, no one can bicker with Mr. White. At least six of his japes must have been familiar to Grover Cleveland, but should that august and venerated gentleman return, for a few loose minutes, to visit the pit of a Manhattan theatre he would doubtless laugh roundly at them. For it is the peculiar genius of Mr. White to make an act out of an anecdote, to spin an innocent jest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays: Jul. 6, 1925 | 7/6/1925 | See Source »

...only at the end of considerable discussion by the committee appointed by President Hibben last spring after the abolishment of bicker week that the new plan was drawn up. The system is organized to solve the problems of opening the clubs to Sophomores. It permits them periodical vists to Prospect street, and allows free bickering after a certain date...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MAKE RADICAL CHANGES IN TIGER CLUB SYSTEM | 10/2/1924 | See Source »

...husband is a playwright, the wife an actress, and so far their marrriage has begotten only temperament. O'Neill shows them snarling and yapping, making quarrels their chief recreation. They bicker about nothing, repetitiously, inconclusively, murderously, amorously. For they actually wrangle because they love each other too much to leave each other alone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays: Mar. 31, 1924 | 3/31/1924 | See Source »

Princeton, N. J., March 25, 11 P. M.--The Interclub Committee unanimously passed a motion late tonight abolishing the present system of club elections known as "Bicker Week...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BICKER WEEK GOES; PRINCETON WANTS NEW ELECTION SYSTEM | 3/26/1924 | See Source »

This action was taken as a result of last Bicker week which was the worst in the history of the University. A committee will be appointed by President Hibben to propose a new plan of club election...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BICKER WEEK GOES; PRINCETON WANTS NEW ELECTION SYSTEM | 3/26/1924 | See Source »

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