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...very little understood by them. The general consensus seems to be that the University exercises some sort of influence over the choice of plays put on by the drama groups. But the influence here does not consist of controls from without. As William Talbot, president of the Sock and Buskin, explained, his group has faculty members, and consequently any decision it makes is naturely not a purely student decision...
...University also maintains a certain amount of outside control over drama, as is reflected in the fact that all play programs read "Brown University presents" rather than merely "The Sock and Buskin presents." One aspect of this control is that the University handles the money for all drama groups on the campus. "It would be tremendously difficult for us to handle the money," Talbot said. "I just can't conceive of how an undergraduate could...
...Kissing Bandit (MGM) pokes some good-humored fun at the buskin-and-bluster heroes of costume melodrama. The picture itself is only a costume piece, with a little vaudeville thrown in. Its best features are the broad comedy by J. Carroll Naish, the sentimental songs sung by Frank Sinatra and Kathryn Grayson, and some lively Spanish dances...
...aria and buskin yielded to the sock and tassel. In 1854 someone rented the stage for an exhibition of live Indians. Pentland's Circus and then a group of Chinese jugglers followed. During this transition period touring features such as Zavitowski's Juvenile Ballet still played the Athenaeum. By 1868, though, only cheap variety shows appeared; and the name of "Old Howard," already in common use, was officially adopted...
...Migawd," groaned Mr. Brown, "that you should say that to me." For if any one man has an intimate knowledge of the genus hokinsoniensis it is he. From Bronxville to Winnetka and from Wellesley to Butte Heights he has trod the boards with a dinner jacket for his buskin and a water pitcher for his scenery. The immediate result of his expeditions was the spread of the gospel of the drayma; a less immediate but just as laudable one in his newest book, "Accustomed...