Word: brilliants
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Philosopher-General Andrews succeeds Eliot Wadsworth, brilliant engineer and financier of private fortune, who left the firm of Stone & Webster for Red Cross Management in 1916, went thence to Secretary Mellon's service...
...unlike that of many of the Italian singers in the U. S., is excellent, his French admirable. When he recently returned to the Metropolitan after a long illness (TIME, Mar. 16) the musicians found a pause in the score, laid down their instruments, stood applauding with the audience. A brilliant singer whose voice is still exquisite, an accomplished actor, he is beloved by his fellow singers and worshiped by the bravo-yelling denizens of the Metropolitan's crow's nest...
...Goodman and his Stagers have made a good start. It can hardly be tailed brilliant, yet they are smartly away from the barrier and not far from the van. They produced a play by E. Temple Thurston about an Englishman who wanted to go back to the engaging path of his early adventuring in Africa. His wife persuaded him that Liverpool and love were better. An early scene in Africa and a barroom temptation episode round out the evening...
...tried. Chubb has only ideas And very excellent ideas they turn out to be. For instance, the doctor's ailing landlady, who has let him keep his room because of professional services rendered, brings in her parrot to he cured of some undetermined malady. Chubb thereupon conceives the brilliant stunt of pawning the parrot to buy breakfast for the three. No sooner suggested than acted upon, but, alas, for fond dreams of ham and eggs, a bewilderingly beautiful Red Cross nurse takes the money received to feed the starving Russians. The three hungry men grow desperate, but Chubb comes through...
...Leighton '26 has been selected the winner of this week's CRIMSON play-reviewing contest, which was distinguished by more brilliant writing than was offered in the preceding contests. He will receive today a check for $25. Honorable mention has been given reviews written by P. W. Claflin '27, R. L. Hapgood '25, E. B. Spalding '26, W. H. Thompson '25, and R. A. Warner...