Word: booth
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...names of such actors as Edwin Booth, Lawrence Barrett are freely sprinkled over the ensuing pages. Humorous stories are told of missed cues, scenic mishaps. Madame Janauschek, temperamental, egotistical, flashes meteorically through the pages, is made to live again in her great roles and her off-stage tantrums. There are many amusing episodes of Shakespearean productions; atrocious costumes and absurd scenery failed to detract from the serious and pseudo-scholarly performances of the bombastic hams...
Meanwhile Otis and his brother Charles were writing a melodrama, The Red Signal, which eventually enjoyed a brief run in Chicago. Feeling the time was not ripe for him to embark by himself as a manager, Mr. Skinner joined forces with Edwin Booth, who was just past his prime and had begun to rest on his laurels. Shakespeare and Restoration Comedy were the order...
...mile run, Harvard came very close to gaining another title. Tibbetts gave Booth of Johns Hopkins, another defending champion, a stiff fight, finishing in second place after a terrific spurt, about six yards behind the winner. The Crimson's remaining four points were contributed by Eastman, who captured fifth place in the shotput with a heave of 46 feet one and three-eighths inches; Greenidge, whose qualifying javelin throw of 178 feet 11 1-2 inches on Friday stood for fourth place in the title competition on Saturday; and Cutcheon, who scored the remaining point by finishing fifth...
...Mile Run.--Won by Booth, Johns Hopkins; second, Tibbetts, Harvard; third, Lermond, Boston College; fourth, Kinby, Cornell; fifth, Helm, Georgetown Time...
...Booth has pitched these last four games and will work against Yale. Duchin has caught well since gaining his berth in the middle of the season. Howard and Captain Zarakov are the stars of the infield. The outfield has been shifted about a good deal, but the final combination of Durant, Bennett, and de Becker has proved the best. Bennett is the only one who has, kept his place all season, and has led the team in batting...