Word: brilliants
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...their remodeled theatre, which in its present stage of hospitality is approached by a wooden bridge from Dartmouth Street to the Box Office, presented "Pygmalion" last evening to an enthusiastic audience. There was a slight smell of fresh paint about everything except the performance, which gave promise of a brilliant season. Two of the principal roles were acted by Mr. Clive and Mr. Wingfield, who had done them almost as well before. Miss Willard played Eliza Dolittle with originality and grace. She was not able to make her flower-girl accent sufficiently distinct, except in the first scene, and this...
...meeting of the Yale football team tonight, W. N. Mallory '24 of Memphis, Tennessee, who starred at fullback on this fall's eleven, was elected captain of the 1923 team. Though unable to participate in the Princeton contest due to injury, Mallory proved his worth as an exceptionally brilliant defensive back as well as a dependable interference man in the annual battle against Harvard...
Only one of the Hotchkiss candidates Edward J. Day '26 of Dorchester, gained a place on the honor list, the Hotchkiss victory being secured by a high general average on the part of its final candidates in the examinations, rather than by a number of brilliant records...
Forty-three men won places on the honor list of those final candidates who secured an average grade of B or better in the 1922 examinations. The most brilliant individual record among 1003 final candidates was made by George W. Cottrell Jr. '26 of Cleveland, Ohio, who prepared at the University School in that city. He led by a narrow margin Austin M. Brues '26 of Jamaica Plain, who prepared at Roxbury Latin School, and Philip E. Mosely '26 of Westfield, who prepared at Westfield High School...
...brought her reputation, her usual studied technique, and her scintillating costumes, but she brought, no feeling of definite characterization, no gripping conviction of flesh and blood and human sensibilities. To one who had seen her in the two previous productions, she was again Mlle. Sorel, the Doucet-costumed, the brilliant technician, the vivid personality, yea, even "the magnificent", but not the sincere worker in the art of portraying character. One begins to suspect, in fact, that Mademoiselle has a very clever press agent...