Word: booth
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...coach, the Club has secured the services of Mr. Kendall Weston, a famous Shakespearean actor and now director of the Somerville Players. Mr. Weston played in former years with Edwin Booth and Lawrence Barrett...
...Cooper Megrue's latest play, "Honors Are Even," bids fair to take a rank in the approval of the theatre going public alongside of "Under Cover," "It Pays to Advertise," and "Tea for Three," its precursors by the same author. Mr. Megrue has wisely enough adopted he policy of Booth Tarkington and other eminent playwrights--the policy of writing only one play every other year. The playwright is accordingly enabled to give the public in each instance a play of real lasting merit, and not merely an expanded and hastily-constructed sketch...
Perhaps the most significant name in the membership of the Triangle Club is that of Booth Tarkington '93. Under his executive guidance, the name of the organization was changed to its present title. This change was calculated to broaden the scope of the club's activity, and in pursuance of his aim for a wider field of undergraduate creation, he wrote and produced "The Honorable Julius Caesar," a travesty on the original set to music...
...prove to a doubting public that pure amateur integrity and ability is worthy of recognition. Although lack of time prevented any production on an elaborate scale, no time was wasted in providing a make-shift vehicle which would give the potential talent then in college much-needed experience. Booth Tarkington's "The Hon. Julius Caesar" was dragged from the archives, dusted, and presented in twentieth century style...
...That Booth Trakington is a past master, and a popular one, in the art of interpreting the emotions of youth, particularly the youth of seventeen, was again demonstrated at the Hollis Street Theatre on Monday evening, where a large first-night audience enthusiastically applauded the appearance of "Clarence." When Bostonians insistently encore a piece until the leading actor has taken several curtain-calls, and refuse to be satisfied until he has made some sort of a speech, then the success of that play is assured. Wherefore, we may expect "Clarence" to make his abode at the Hollis for some time...