Word: bunkered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...production of "The Taming of the Shrew' in modern dress offers a wonderful chance for experimentation on the stage," declared Ralph Bunker, yesterday to a CRIMSON reporter. Mr. Bunker was formerly instructor in voice technique and public speaking here, and now is playing the part of Winkle in "Pickwick" at the Majestic Theatre...
...Bunker, who, in his career as an actor, has always played in farcical roles, went on to compare amateur and professional acting. In recalling the time when he played in the first Harvard Dramatic Club presentation "The Land of Promise," in which he took the part of a starving Russian, he said: "As I look back at that time when I was still a Freshman, I realize that my natural tendency was to overact, to keep moving constantly, thus detracting from my own effectiveness as well as that of others. This overacting, as compared with the repressed playing which...
...whole stage," Mr. Bunker continued, "has been completely altered in the last few years by the influx of college graduates. English producers have a large number of highly trained actors to oraw from who have completed their education before taking up the stage. It has not been thus in the United States, however, until recently, but the steadily rising number of college men and women who have chosen acting as their profession has raised the general tone of the American drama...
...visited the English universities," said the Countess, "but I have had no opportunity of coming in contact with the American college boy. In France we know Boston as a big University town and a historical ground. As I came into Boston tonight. I saw the Bunker Hill monument all aglow, and I remembered my ancestor Lafayette who helped lay its corner stone. I am very glad to be here...
...Behind young Quincy sits the illustrious Congressional orator, John Randolph of Roanoke, pouting and shouting with grim intensity. If Sir Henry conquers, John Randolph will go to Europe on his winnings: Eclipse wins. John Randolph and the South are gallantly chagrined. Lafayette, with his Revolution limp, visits Boston and Bunker Hill, erect and vigorous at 70, with a most serviceable brown wig. As Governor Lincoln's aide, young Quincy rides beside the hero through an ovation "by bells, cannon and human lungs" from a transported citizenry which "was then homogeneous and American." In 20 tents on Boston Common...